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Věra Kalvachová

* 1928 †︎ unknown

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

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

Hana Káňová

Hana Káňová

* 1930 †︎ 2024

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. - 9. března 1944 - Hromadná vražda vězňů tzv. Terezínského rodinného táb, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Hana Kende in 1958

Hana Kende

* 1948

United Kingdom, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Nathan Kisler

* 1918

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Slavomír Klaban

Slavomír Klaban

* 1922

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, A cultural celebrity, Relatives of important personalities

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Josef Klat

Josef Klat

* 1922 †︎ 2013

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria

Jozef during the military service

Jozef Klein

* 1942 †︎ 2018

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust

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

Cecilia Kleinova - detail 1.jpg (historic)

Cecilia Kleinová

* 1928

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

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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

Twelve-year-old Ivan Klíma

Mgr. Ivan Klíma

* 1931 †︎ 2025

Dissident, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Journalist, Art and censorship

27. – 29. 6. 1967 - The 4th Congress of Czech Writers, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt

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