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

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

František Dočekal and his wife Anna. Mělník, 1984/1985

František Dočekal

* 1941

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

Maja Dočkalová

Maja Dočkalová

* 1924 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Marie Dočkalová

* 1936

Relative of a political prisoner, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945

Miloslava Dohnalíková, the 1960s

Miloslava Dohnalíková

* 1943

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Leonid Dohovič in a photograph from the prison file

Leonid Levko Dohovič

* 1935 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Underage political prisoners, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

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

Lumír Dokoupil (en)

professor PhDr., CSc. Lumír Dokoupil

* 1935

Historian, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Scientist, University professor

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ingrid Doležalová in 2025

Ingrid Doležalová

* 1939

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Ludmila Doležalová in 2023

Ludmila Doležalová

* 1939

Illegal border crossing, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Věra Doleželová

* 1930

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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