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

Jozef Gula (en)

Jozef Gula

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 6 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Gulec during basic military service in 1959 in Prachatice

Jan Gulec

* 1938

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

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 6 more anniversaries

Ladislava Guričová

Ladislava Guričová

* 1938 †︎ 2022

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

Otto Habermann

* 1928

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Štefan Habovský as a soldier of criminal military service (1952)

Štefan Habovský

* 1930

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

In youth

Jozef Habovštiak

* 1937

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

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jarmila Halbrštátová

Jarmila Habrštátová

* 1924 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag and 1 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov and 1 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Hadraba in the 1950s (ID photo)

Jaroslav Hadraba

* 1935 †︎ 2025

Forced labour during the WW2, Border Guards, 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, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

Rudolf Hadwiger in the army from 1954 to 1956

Rudolf Hadwiger

* 1929 †︎ 2020

Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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

Martin Hagara - after returning from prison (1952)

Martin Hagara

* 1934

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Underage political prisoners and 3 more categories

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

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