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

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Venuše Koblasová

* 1940

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Kobler with beard against the occupation, 1969

Josef Kobler

* 1934

Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Graduation photograph of Zdenka Nimmrichterová (Kobzová) from June 22, 1953

Zdenka Kobzová

* 1935

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Eva Kočanová, roz. Markovičová

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR

Václav Kocek, 23.10.2013

Lieutenant (ret.) Václav Kocek

* 1924 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR and 3 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

J. Kochmannová

Josefa Kochmannová

* 1932 †︎ 2022

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jiří Kocián at the time of the birth of his son Petr, 1978

Jiří Kocián

* 1939

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Sokol

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Helena Kociánová

Helena Kociánová

* 1933

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Gabriel Kocmal

Second Lieutenant Gabriel Kocmal

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

Jaromíra Kočnárová

Jaromíra Kočnarová

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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