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

Milada Mayerová in early 1950s

Milada Mayerová

* 1920

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 3 more anniversaries

mazurek_robert_1945.jpg (historic)

Sergeant (ret.) Robert Mazurek

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Veteran of WW2, western front, Wehrmacht soldier

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

picture after the War

Susanne Medas

* 1923

Emigrant, Holocaust, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Winton’s Children

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Helena Medková (1960)

Helena Medková

* 1946

Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 8 more anniversaries

Rudolf Mejsnar playing the violin (1940s)

Rudolf Mejsnar

* 1928 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 8 more anniversaries

Alois Melich

Alois Melich

* 1930

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Eva Šašecí, married Melmuková, as a vicar in 1956

PhDr. Eva Melmuková

* 1932 †︎ 2022

Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Historian, Non-Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989 and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH and 7 more anniversaries

Zdeněk Menšík in the year 2019

Zdeněk Menšík

* 1929

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Vladimír Měřínský, the Újezd teacher, 1965

Mgr. Vladimír Měřínský

* 1934 †︎ 2022

The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Veteran of WW2, western front, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 18. 4. 1945 - Zákřovský masakr and 9 more anniversaries

Evelina with her mother

Evelina Merová

* 1930 †︎ 2024

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz and 1 more anniversaries

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