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

Duncan James, a portrait

James Duncan

* 1925 †︎ 2022

Veteran of WW2, western front

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Anna Ďurišová as a young girl

Anna Ďurišová

* 1938

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

Jaroslava Dušátková (en)

Jaroslava Dušátková

* 1941

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Sokol, United States of America, Illegal border crossing, Czech community in the US and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

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Jan Dušek

* 1922

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Holocaust

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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Václav Dušek

* 1923 †︎ 2016

Participant in antifascist resistance, Forced labour during the WW2, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, The Partisan

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Studentské pochody na Pražský hrad

After being drafted in Prague, September 1954

František Dusil

* 1934

Victim of forced relocation, Relatives of important personalities, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Graduate from secondary school

Eliška Dusilová

* 1931 †︎ 2023

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 1 more anniversaries

Vladimír Dvořáček, high school graduation photograph. 1955

Vladimír Dvořáček

* 1936

Relative of a political prisoner, A secret police collaborator, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Graduation photograph, 1956

Zdeňka Dvořáčková

* 1937

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Josef Dvořák, graduation photo

Josef Dvořák

* 1919 †︎ 2018

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

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