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

Zdeněk Damašek, 1945

Zdeněk Damašek

* 1925 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, 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, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia

Marie Damborská

* 1927 †︎ 2025

Member of Orel, Illegal border crossing, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 5 more anniversaries

František Daniel

František Daniel

* 1921 †︎ unknown

Holocaust, Gypsies / Roma, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Contemporary portrait

Marie Danielová

* 1932

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Farmer

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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Rozália Danková (sestra Stella)

* 1920 †︎ 2017

Friars, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Catholic clerical

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

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Lidmila Daňková

* 1923 †︎ 2010

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice, 20. 6. 1942 - prezekuce a věznění studentů z Roudnice nad Labem

Rudolf Daňo in 2021

Rudolf Daňo

* 1923

The Partisan, Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ladislav Davidovič, 24 years old

Ladislav Davidovič

* 1936

Underage political prisoners, Victim of forced relocation, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 6 more anniversaries

Mr. Debnár's wife

Ján Debnár

* 1934

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 6 more anniversaries

Marie Dedeciusová in a Sokol uniform in 1948

Marie Dedeciusová

* 1920 †︎ 2017

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Sokol, Volhynian Czechs

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 1 more anniversaries

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