17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities | Memory of Nations

Eva Mosnáková at young age

Eva Mosnáková

* 1929 †︎ 2024

Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Hidden people, Illegal border crossing

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State and 1 more anniversaries

Nachtmannová libuše (1) – kopie.jpg (historic)

PhMr. Libuše Nachtmannová

* 1919 †︎ 2013

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice

JUDr., CSc. Ervín Najman

* 1921 †︎ 2016

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced labour during the WW2, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Jaroslav Novák

Jaroslav Novák

* 1921 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

As a young man

ThDr. Jiří Josef Otter

* 1919

Non-Catholic clerical, Political prisoner in WW2

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

František Pavelka - graduation photo

František Pavelka

* 1916

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Relatives of important personalities

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Jan Pavlíček

* 1917 †︎ 2010

French Foreign Legion, Victim of forced relocation, Veteran of WW2, western front

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

From the play Zločin a trest (Crime and punishment) in the J. K. Tyl theatre

Pavel Pavlovský

* 1944

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r and 8 more anniversaries

Ezra Perl - student

Ezra Perl

* 1919

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Graduation photograph

Věra Pohlová

* 1924 †︎ 2019

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Life along the Iron Curtain

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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