1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 | Memory of Nations

Alexander Speiser as a child around 1941/42

Alexander Speiser

* 1928

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, National minorities, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Israel/Palestine and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Vanda Špinková, 1953

Vanda Špinková

* 1935

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Forced labour during the WW2, Repatriated and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Vasil Špir on a contemporary photograph from the time of the Second World War

Vasil Špir

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 4 more anniversaries

Jarmila Šrámková, 1941

Ing. Jarmila Šrámková , CSc.

* 1928

Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Anna Šrotýřová in 1950

Anna Šrotýřová

* 1920

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 5 more anniversaries

Miroslav Štandera, Royal Air Force

Brigadier General (ret.) Miroslav Štandera

* 1918 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France and 1 more anniversaries

František Staněk in 1945

František Staněk

* 1944

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Halina Staňková in 1937

Halina Staňková

* 1936 †︎ 2024

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 5 more categories

23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

young František Stanzel

František Stanzel

* 1931

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Young Jaroslava Stará

Jaroslava Stará

* 1936 †︎ unknown

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Radio Free Europe, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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