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

Period portrait of a witness, Prague, 1945

Klára Křehlíková

* 1928

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

1938 - military photo

Oldřich Krejčí

* 1914 †︎ 2018

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Déclassé

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 5 more anniversaries

Josef Krejčík during his military service, early 1950s

Josef Krejčík

* 1932 †︎ 2025

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Věra Krejčíková, 20 June 2023

Věra Krejčíková

* 1936

People helping Jews during WWII, National minorities

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Krejčíř Jaromír as a young man

Jaromír Krejčíř

* 1932

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Rostislav Krejčiřík

* 1925

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka

Josef Krejník, 2023

Josef Krejník

* 1937

A communist interrogator, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ

Josef Krejsa, undated

Josef Krejsa

* 1941

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

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

Waltraud Kriegisch in March 2012

Waltraud Kriegisch

* 1927 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Marie Krieglerová (Přerovská)

Marie Krieglerová

* 1925

Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Relative of a political prisoner

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

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