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

Alois Škorpil, 1958

Alois Škorpil

* 1940 †︎ 2021

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

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vlasta Skřičková, 1944, photo from graduation photoboard

Vlasta Skřičková

* 1925

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

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Zdenka Slezáková

* 1919

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

JUDr. Josef Sommr

* 1913 †︎ unknown

Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, western front

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

JUDr. Kuneš Sonntag

* 1919 †︎ 2010

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, Relatives of important personalities and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

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PhDr. Vojmír Srdečný

* 1919 †︎ 2019

Forced labour during the WW2, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Eva Okenfusová in 1938

Eva Štanclová

* 1923 †︎ 2022

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

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

In Mariánské lázně

Professor, PhDr. Miloš Stehlík

* 1923

Historian, Catholic clerical, Forced labour during the WW2, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

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Alena Sternová

* 1925 †︎ unknown

Representative of the Church, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII and 1 more categories

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial and 2 more anniversaries

Juraj Strauss, 1945

Major in retiment, Doc., MUDr. Juraj Strauss

* 1917 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Participant in antifascist resistance, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2 and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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