1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine | Memory of Nations

Vladimír Dlouhý

* 1922

National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

Sixteen-year-old Leonida before going to the labour camp

Leonida Dobšová

* 1926 †︎ 2018

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Ukraine

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Doležal (in front, on the horse) in Zdolbuniv, circa 1937-38

Zdeněk Doležal

* 1934 †︎ 2022

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 1 more anniversaries

Marie Dvořáková, 1940s

Marie Dvořáková

* 1931

Volhynian Czechs, Ukraine, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (1929 - 1950 рр.), 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 2 more anniversaries

Rostyslava Fedak (center), Khrystyna Rutar (left), Hanna Zaremba-Kosovych (right) at the Museum of the History of the Ukrainian Women's Movement (2020, Lviv)

Rostyslava Fedak (Teleha) Ростислава Федак (Телега)

* 1933 †︎ 2021

Ukraine, Holocaust, A victim of communist repressions in Halychyna

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

Jiří Fochler

Jiří Fochler

* 1924 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Marie Fousová, 15.4.2013

Marie Fousová

* 1913 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, People helping Jews during WWII, Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 4 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

Božena Frolová, late 1950s

Božena Frolová

* 1937

Volhynian Czechs, Ukraine, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Repatriated

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (1929 - 1950 рр.) and 4 more anniversaries

Sláva Gajdošíková (Novotná)

Sláva Gajdošíková

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 1936 - 1938 - Great Terror in the USSR, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

hajek_bohumir_portret_1940.JPG (historic)

Bohumír Hájek

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Illegal border crossing

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

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