1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps | Memory of Nations

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Yeshayahu (Kostia) Nir

* 1930

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoners in the labour camps in Nováky, Sereď and Vyhne in Slovakia

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Hana Nová during a graduation ceremony (1973)

JUDr. Hana Nová

* 1949

University professor, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Markéta (Margit) Nováková

Markéta (Margit) Nováková

* 1922 †︎ 2020

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Pavel Oliva in 1946

Pavel Oliva

* 1923 †︎ 2021

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

František Pachman in childhood

Ing. František Pachman

* 1942 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto, People helping Jews during WWII, Hidden people

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Markéta Pacovská in 2009

Markéta Pacovská, roz. Hiršová

* 1921

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt

P. Parkán young

Pavel Parkán

* 1932

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Representative of the Church, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Non-Catholic clerical

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Anton Pasternák

* 1948

Holocaust, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Renata Pavelková, 5 years old

Renata Pavelková, roz. Götzová

* 1938

Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

J. Pek, a historical picture

Ing. Jaroslav Pek

* 1919 †︎ 2012

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Communist official and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

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