A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

Nazism

Every child on the train had its ID card. Eva had the number 639.

Eva Paddock

* 1935

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US, Winton’s Children

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

palecek_vladimir1.jpg (historic)

Vladimír Paleček

* 1924 †︎ 2012

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Veteran of WW2, western front

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

František Peřina

General (ret.) František Peřina

* 1911 †︎ 2006

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

1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

Antonín Petružela

Colonel Antonín Petružela

* 1914

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, Friars and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk and 2 more anniversaries

Otto Pick, 4.1.2012

Private First Class (ret.) Otto Pick

* 1925 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, A cultural celebrity, Winton’s Children and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

war picture

Colonel (ret.) Alois Píška

* 1920 †︎ 2014

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France

Photo with husband

Anna Plačková

* 1913

Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Jan Plovajko after war

Jan Plovajko

* 1922 †︎ 2020

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

dunkirk.jpg (historic)

Josef Pochman

* 1921

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Jiří Poláček

Jiří Poláček

* 1913 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster

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