17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland

17. 9. 1939

Antoni Aleksandrowicz

Antoni Aleksandrowicz

* 1928

Anti-communist rebel, Hidden people, Member of Polish Home Army (Armia Krakowa, AK), Participant in antifascist resistance, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands) and 3 more categories

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration

Josef Babák, 1945

Master Sergeant (ret.) Josef Babák

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 2 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 3 more anniversaries

Mykola Baranovskij - Sokolovskij

Mykola Baranovskij - Sokolovskij

* 1928

National minorities, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Volhynian Czechs, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 1 more categories

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 1 more anniversaries

Contemporary portrait

František Beneš

* 1923

Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Volhynian Czechs

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Vladimír Beran in Czechoslovakian army troop (builder´s company- Prague 1945)

Vladimír Beran

* 1925 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Volhynian Czechs

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Nina Bilijenková 1946.jpg (historic)

Nina Bilijenková

* 1929

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 1 more anniversaries

Naděžda Brůhová, 1945

Naděžda Brůhová

* 1925

National minorities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs and 1 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 4 more anniversaries

Tadeusz Brzeziński

Tadeusz Brzeziński

* 1929

Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands)

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Antonín Bukový

Colonel (ret.) Antonín Bukový

* 1916 †︎ 2015

Illegal border crossing, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo and 3 more anniversaries

Tadeusz Bukowy

Tadeusz Bukowy

* 1929

Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland