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

Jan Hrad as a sergeant in 1967

Jan Hrad

* 1937

Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

Ilja Hradecký on the Charles´Bridge in the 1960s

Ilja Hradecký

* 1945

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, A cultural celebrity

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Jan Hradecký, 1970s

Jan Hradecký

* 1947

Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Zdenka Hradečná in her youth

Doc. MUDr. Zdenka Hradečná

* 1927 †︎ 2024

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

memorialist at the beginning of the term of office of the mayor

František Hradil

* 1932 †︎ 2021

Historian, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, University professor

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, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

Hrazdira after the second war

Ferdinand Hrazdíra

* 1930 †︎ 2011

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Irena Hrbáčková, 1946

Irena Hrbáčková

* 1930 †︎ 2022

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2 and 1 more categories

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

Marie Hrbková 2¨.jpg (historic)

Marie Hrbková

* 1922 †︎ 2018

Vicar without State agreement, Non-Catholic clerical, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol 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, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 11 more anniversaries

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Tibor Hrdlička

* 1932

National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 1 more anniversaries

Lieutenant Václav Hrdlička

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Agent of the western secret services (cold war) and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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