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

20 - the witness at the age of eighteen

Blanka Císařovská

* 1927 †︎ 2022

Dissident, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Art and censorship, Scientist

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin and 3 more anniversaries

„Every minute of training they prepared us for combat at a front, not for some hanging about.“ Jaroslav Citterberg during service to Tiso’s Slovak State.

Jozef Citterberg

* 1921 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

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, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Citterbergova Vera

Sergeant Věra Citterbergová

* 1926 †︎ 2007

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Jaromír Čížek, 1942

Jaromír Čížek

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 20. 6. 1942 - prezekuce a věznění studentů z Roudnice nad Labem, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Josef Cmíral

* 1915 †︎ unknown

French Foreign Legion, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, western front

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 1 more anniversaries

Josef Čoček po propuštění z vězení v roce 1936.JPG (historic)

Josef Čoček

* 1932 †︎ 2019

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

Vasil Coka v československé armádě v roce 1945.JPG (historic)

Vasil Coka

* 1923 †︎ 2015

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Political prisoner in WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 1 more anniversaries

Dalibor Coufal as a young man

Ing. Dalibor Coufal

* 1930 †︎ 2020

Victim of forced relocation, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sokol

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 4 more anniversaries

František Coufal at the military service, 1957

František Coufal

* 1937

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Mariana Crhounková v roce 2018

Mariana Crhonková

* 1931 †︎ 2024

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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