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

Jindřiška Herclíková at the age of seventeen (1945)

Jindřiška Herclíková

* 1928

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

The lieutenant colonel Jinřich Heřkovič

Jindřich Heřkovič

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), 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), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 9 more anniversaries

Ludmila Hermanová - 1956

Ludmila Hermanová

* 1936

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Nora Hermanová, née Metzlová, České Budějovice, 1937

Nora Hermanová

* 1934

Holocaust, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Libuše Heřmanská in Eye Direct studio, 2022

Libuše Heřmanská

* 1930

People helping Jews during WWII, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Major StB Vratislav Herold in the 1960s

Vratislav Herold

* 1927 †︎ 2010

A secret police collaborator, A secret police agent, A warder in a communist prison, Forced labour during the WW2

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Eva Herrmannová in her youth

Mgr. Eva Herrmannová

* 1929 †︎ 2017

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Brigita Hertlová – period photograph

Brigita Hertlová

* 1938

Dissident, Déclassé, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 4 more anniversaries

Herudkova_01.jpg (historic)

Erika Herudková

* 1939

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Portrait of Eva Herzánová

Eva Herzánová

* 1933

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, Memory of vanished settlements

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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