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

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

Marie Čuboková (Drozdová) - 1948

Marie Čuboková

* 1931 †︎ 2018

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 3 more anniversaries

Miloš Čulík

Miloš Čulík

* 1924 †︎ 2012

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Forced labour during the WW2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 20. 6. 1942 - prezekuce a věznění studentů z Roudnice nad Labem

Before military service, around 1949

Oldřich Čunek

* 1927

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Antonie Cupalová

Corporal (ret.) Antonie Cupalová

* 1922 †︎ 2009

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 2 more categories

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 1 more anniversaries

Dušan Čurda, current photograph

Dušan Čurda

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

František Cvoliga

František Cvoliga

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Veteran of WW2, eastern front

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

p.Cvrčková.jpg (historic)

Jarmila Cvrčková

* 1922 †︎ 2011

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Ludmila Czerneková (Kozmiková), mid 1950s

Ludmila Czerneková

* 1936

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people, Volhynian Czechs

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 2 more anniversaries

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