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

Matěj Kalina in his youth, Šumice, 1960s

Matěj Kalina

* 1942

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

Witness Michal Kalina, 2023

Michal Kalina

* 1943

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 9 more anniversaries

Vasil Kalinič

* 1924 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Representative of the Church, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Miluška Kallistová née Coufalová

Miluška Kallistová

* 1925

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Relative of a political prisoner

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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Věra Kalná

* 1929 †︎ 2023

Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Memory of vanished settlements

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Oldřich Kalousek 2014

Oldřich Kalousek

* 1933

Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

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Ludmila Kalousová

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Pavol Kama - 1948

Ezechiel (Pavol) Kama (Kálmán)

* 1929

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Hidden people

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Růžena Kamarádová at the time of her arrest

Růžena Kamarádová

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš

Jiří Kameníček

Jiří Kameníček

* 1937

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 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, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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