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

František Staněk in 1945

František Staněk

* 1944

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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 and 2 more anniversaries

Anna Staňková at 18 years old, 1953

Anna Staňková

* 1935

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

young František Stanzel

František Stanzel

* 1931

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, 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

Stárek Miroslav

Miroslav Stárek

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

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 and 1 more anniversaries

Drahomíra Starobová, 1960

Drahomíra Starobová

* 1931

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Luboš Starý in 2023

Luboš Starý

* 1955

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 2 more anniversaries

Jan Staša

Mgr. Jan Staša

* 1926 †︎ 2014

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Ferdinand Stasek

Colonel (ret.) Ferdinand Stasek

* 1921 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

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

Anna Šťastná, sister Dobromila -1951

Anna Šťastná (sestra Dobromila)

* 1928

Friars, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

The witness with her husband Zdeněk Št'astný and her parents Františka Götzová and Josef Götz in 1957

Růžena Šťastná

* 1932

Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Ústecký masakr (31. 7. 1945), 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

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