1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

1. 9. 1939-1. 9. 1939

Period portrait of Pavel Švanda

Professor Pavel Švanda

* 1936

Journalist, Relative of a political prisoner, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

As a musician in a music band

Stanislav Švarc

* 1925 †︎ 2019

National minorities, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Relative of a political prisoner, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, Ukraine in 1986–1991 and 2 more anniversaries

František Svoboda in 1949

František Svoboda

* 1930

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Colonel (ret.) Gustav Svoboda

* 1917 †︎ 2006

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

foto

Jaroslav Svoboda

* 1922

Forced labour during the WW2

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Josef Svoboda several months before his arrest / 1949

Josef Svoboda

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Sixteen Ernestina Patoprstá

Ernestina Švorcová

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Jiřina Sýkorová in 2021

Jiřina Sýkorová

* 1933

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 5 more anniversaries

Witness in military uniform, 1940s

generálmajor Ing. Ignác Syrovátka

* 1914 †︎ 1998

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Déclassé, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 9 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 6 more anniversaries

Andrej Sziszák during EYD recording in New York, 2023

Andrej Sziszak

* 1957

United States of America, Hungary, Croatia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 19 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 and 22 more anniversaries

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