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

Milan Prokeš as a student at the grammar school in Přerov

MUDr. Milan Prokeš

* 1931

Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Sokol, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Růžena Prokešová as a young woman

Růžena Prokešová

* 1934

Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Jan Prokop

Jan Prokop

* 1923 †︎ 2015

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Sokol, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Jan Prokop

Jan Prokop

* 1923

The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 2 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 2 more anniversaries

Jiří Prokop in 1991, holding a letter written in Hebrew, photographed in Šmeral's factory

Jiří Prokop

* 1946

Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 4 more anniversaries

Photo from company ID card from the Czechoslovak Automotive Plants, 1972

Zdeňka Prokopiusová

* 1933

Relative of a political prisoner, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Prokůpek Josef

Josef Prokůpek

* 1920 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Holocaust, Czech minority in the former USSR

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Partisans, Jaroslav Pros on the left

Jaroslav Pros

* 1920 †︎ 2022

The Partisan, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Emílie Prošková, recording session with Memory of Nation, May 2023

Emilie Prošková

* 1936

Victim of forced relocation, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Průšek Dobroslav

Dobroslav Průšek

* 1924 †︎ 2014

Forced labour during the WW2

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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