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

Václav Hajný

Václav Hajný

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), National minorities, Volhynian Czechs and 4 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

Year 1945

Václav Hajný

* 1927 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Witness Dušan Halaj in his youth

PhDr. Dušan Halaj

* 1937

Historian, Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, National minorities, Writer and 1 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 1 more anniversaries

Stanislav Halama (1970s)

Stanislav Halama

* 1934

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

Marie Halfarová / early 1950s

Marie Halfarová

* 1923

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Marie Halfarová, around 1949

Marie Halfarová

* 1929

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Ludmila while studying in Beatenberg

Ludmila Hallerová

* 1928 †︎ 2022

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Non-Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Israel/Palestine, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Zdeňka Halounová in her youth

Zdeňka Halounová

* 1929 †︎ 2025

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Sokol, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 4 more anniversaries

Vladimír Hamal, 1968

Ing. Vladimír Hamal

* 1924 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

Koloman Hamar - soldier

Koloman Hamar

* 1922

The Partisan, A secret police collaborator, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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