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

Jaroslava Hynková - 1950

Jaroslava Hynková

* 1935

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 3 more anniversaries

Jaroslava Hýsková in 1960

Jaroslava Hýsková

* 1928

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Tamara Igoľnicynová as a young girl

PaedDr. Tamara Igoľnicynová

* 1955

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Participant in the Slovak national uprising

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Jan Ihnatík as a young man

Colonel (ret.) Jan Ihnatík

* 1922

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Broumov, 1946

Major (ret.) Jan Iljáš

* 1922 †︎ 2021

A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Earl Ingram, a portrait

Earl Ingram

* 1922 †︎ 2021

Veteran of WW2, western front, United States of America

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Nina Ingris

Nina Ingrišová

* 1931

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Cossacks, Czech community in the US and 5 more categories

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

Viktorie Ivancová

Colonel (ret.) Viktorie Ivancová

* 1923

National minorities, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Božena Koutná (Ivanová), 1945

Božena Ivanová

* 1927 †︎ 2023

Czech minority in the former USSR, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Veteran of WW2, eastern front

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 1941, August 27-28 - Mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Marie Jáčová in 1958

Marie Jáčová

* 1932

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

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