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

Josef Hřebík, present photo

Staff Sergeant (ret.) Josef Hřebík

* 1923

Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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Ing. Zdeněk Hříbal

* 1926

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 6 more anniversaries

Before graduation, 1948

MUDr. Věra Hřibová

* 1931

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1949 Greek civil war and 10 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Hrňa in front of his forest keeper's lodge in Ploužnice 1964

Jaroslav Hrňa

* 1934

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa

Růžena Hrňová on her wedding day. 1960

Růžena Hrňová

* 1942

Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Josef Hroch-24. 9. 1999.jpg (historic)

Josef Hroch

* 1920 †︎ 2015

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Marie Hromádková (Eliášová) - 1961

Marie Hromádková

* 1943

Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Hanuš Hron during recording

Ing. Hanuš Hron

* 1925 †︎ 2023

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial and 1 more anniversaries

Daniela Hroncová Faklová - photo from the recording (2023)

Daniela Elena Hroncová-Faklová

* 1950

Representative of the Church, Holocaust, Non-Catholic clerical, The Partisan, Political prisoner in WW2 and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 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

Arnošt Hrudník around 1945

Arnošt Hrudník

* 1926 †︎ 2014

The Partisan, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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