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

František Vlček filming with Memory of Nation, Olomouc, 2025

František Vlček

* 1943

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Karel Vlček, at the military service, 1956

Karel Vlček

* 1933

Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Milan Vlček

Milan Vlček

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 5. 1945 - vypálení Javoříčka , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

Vilém Vlk-Mowghli as a pre-war cub Scout

Vilém Vlk

* 1927

Journalist, Boy Scouts, Sokol

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Portrait photograph from the mid-1970s

Vladimír Vlk

* 1936

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 4 more anniversaries

Růžena Vobejdová with her son Milan, Borová, circa 1966

Růžena Vobejdová

* 1932

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 3 more anniversaries

Jana Voborníková

Jana Voborníková, rozená Bělinová

* 1950

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Leo Marian Vodička, 1985

Master of Fine Arts Leo Marian Vodička

* 1950

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, A cultural celebrity

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 7. - 14. 8. 1948 Summer Olympics in London, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Miloslav Vohralík

Miloslav Vohralík

* 1921 †︎ 2011

Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, 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 4 more anniversaries

Jozef Vojtech in the uniform of the Czech-Slovak Freedom Army, 1945

Lieutenant Jozef Vojtech

* 1919

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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