15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR | Memory of Nations

František Kaplan

Colonel František Kaplan

* 1921 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts, Relatives of important personalities

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka

Portrait of Arnošt Karas in 1949

Ing. Arnošt Karas

* 1924

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Jaromír Karásek

Jaromír Karásek

* 1930

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Photo from 1952

Pater Jaroslav Karl

* 1929 †︎ 2019

Member of an Illegal Church, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR) and 8 more categories

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence and 5 more anniversaries

Ivan Karlin in his youth

Ivan Karlín

* 1931

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miroslava Kaštovská (Tkačová) - 1943

Miroslava Kaštovská

* 1931

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relative of a political prisoner

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Věra Kazdová in 1939

Věra Kazdová

* 1921

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

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague and 4 more anniversaries

Professor, Dr. Benjamin Kedar

* 1938

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, University professor

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 9. - 10. 11. 1938 Crystal Night, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State and 8 more anniversaries

Milan Kejzlar as a boy (in 1939)

Professor Ing. Milan Kejzlar CSc.

* 1928

Radio Free Europe, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 1 more anniversaries

Marie Keprtová in her youth

Marie Keprtová

* 1931

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague

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