1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia | Memory of Nations

Věra Sýkorová - youth - year 1948

Věra Sýkorová, roz. Papryčová

* 1932 †︎ 2019

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Witness in military uniform, 1940s

generálmajor Ing. Ignác Syrovátka

* 1914 †︎ 1998

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Déclassé, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 9 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 6 more anniversaries

Gabriel Szász

JUDr. Gabriel Szász

* 1929 †︎ 2019

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Hidden people

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Ludvík Szingert, 1940

Nadpraporčík v.v. Ludvík Szingert

* 1922 †︎ 2016

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Andrej Sziszák during EYD recording in New York, 2023

Andrej Sziszak

* 1957

United States of America, Hungary, Croatia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 19 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 and 22 more anniversaries

Antonín Szkandera, 1952

Antonín Szkandera

* 1934

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

2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Táborský in 2022

Jiří Táborský

* 1934

Relative of a political prisoner, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

In 1960 at the Olympics in Rome with the talletst baseball player of the US team

Adolfína Tačová

* 1939

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa and 3 more anniversaries

František Tampier in 1958

František Tampier

* 1937 †︎ 2025

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Drahomíra Ťápalová, née Srnová, 1944 (16 years old)

Ing. Drahomíra Ťápalová

* 1928

Sokol

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

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