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

1960 - Jan Petrucha profil

Jan Petrucha

* 1924 †︎ 2022

Member of Orel, Forced labour during the WW2, Déclassé, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) and 4 more categories

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 8 more anniversaries

Portrait of the witness, 1939

Ludmila Petřvalská

* 1925 †︎ 2021

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Stanislava Petrželková with her parents Anna and Antonín Svoboda, Holešov, 1940

Stanislava Petrželková

* 1934

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Hermína Petrželová, 2021

Hermína Petrželová

* 1927

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ljuba in childhood

Ljuba Petrželová

* 1936

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Marianna Pevná

Marianna Pevná

* 1938

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, 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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 1 more anniversaries

Mr. Jozef Pevný - year 2016

Jozef Pevný

* 1935 †︎ 2021

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Political prisoner in WW2

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Alois Peyr

Alois Peyr

* 1935 †︎ 2025

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Agnesa Piasecká during EYD recording.

Agnesa Piasecká

* 1954

Clergymen, Hungary, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989 and 8 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 13 more anniversaries

Josef Picek in 2021

Mgr. Josef Picek

* 1938

Journalist, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 4 more anniversaries

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