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

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Vojtěch Klečka

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Agent of the western secret services (cold war) and 4 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty

Alena Kleckerová (Špickova) in her youth

Alena Kleckerová

* 1939

Relative of a political prisoner, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Helena Kleinová

* 1948

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Israel/Palestine, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 4 more anniversaries

Ludmila Kaděrová (Kleinová). 1952

Ludmila Kleinová

* 1935

Memory of vanished settlements, The Sportsmen, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

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Eva Kleinová, roz. Dekojová

* 1934

Relative of a political prisoner, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden

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Master of Fine Arts Mario Klemens

* 1936 †︎ 2025

A cultural celebrity, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

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, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners and 3 more anniversaries

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generálporučík Jaroslav Klemeš

* 1922 †︎ 2017

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner and 1 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Vladimír Klenka, 20 years old, 1948

Vladimír Klenka

* 1928

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Jan Klenotič, 2022

Jan Klenotič

* 1937

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 9 more anniversaries

Ema Kletzenbauerová née Zikova during confirmation

Ema Kletzenbauerová

* 1931

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, Border Guards, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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 and 3 more anniversaries

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