10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR | Memory of Nations

Josef Londa in 1968

Josef Londa

* 1951

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, The Partisan and 6 more categories

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 8 more anniversaries

Štefania Lorándová

Štefánia Lorándová

* 1919 †︎ 2012

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, National minorities, Holocaust and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Jaroslav Loukota, early 1960s

Jaroslav Loukota

* 1945

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Volhynian Czechs

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Nina Luc, July 6, 2012

Nina Luc, roz. Sidorkevič

* 1940

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR

10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia

Zdena as a young woman, Kraslice region, around 1960

Zdena Machková, roz. Kubíková

* 1941

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Repatriated and 1 more categories

10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950

Boris Malák during filming in Prague on October 20, 2023

Ing. First Lieutenant Boris Malák

* 1926 †︎ 2024

The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Volhynian Czechs

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 2 more anniversaries

Vladislav Mec

* unknown

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

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, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Jan Melnik (July 9th, 1945, Prague)

Jan Melnik

* 1921

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier

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, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Vladimír Melnik

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Vladimír Melnik

* 1927 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

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, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Michalička Josef - soldier 1944

Josef Michalička

* 1925 †︎ 2005

Czech minority in the former USSR, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 1 more anniversaries

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