22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

21. 6. 1941

Antoni Aleksandrowicz

Antoni Aleksandrowicz

* 1928

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, The Partisan, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Member of Polish Home Army (Armia Krakowa, AK) and 4 more categories

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration

Slávka Altmanová

Slávka Altmanová

* 1923 †︎ 2021

National minorities, Relatives of important personalities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

Josef Andres in a Czechoslovak uniform

Josef Andres

* 1935 †︎ 2013

Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

3.9.1942 - 2.2.1943 Battle of Stalingrad, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Bohuslav Andrš in 1941

Bohuslav Andrš

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Emigrant, National minorities, Czech minority in the former USSR

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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

Emil Appl

Emil Appl

* 1923 †︎ 2010

Forced labour during the WW2, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Josef Babák, 1945

Master Sergeant (ret.) Josef Babák

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR and 2 more categories

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, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Mykola Baranovskij - Sokolovskij

Mykola Baranovskij - Sokolovskij

* 1928

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

Ben Barenholtz

* 1935 †︎ 2019

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people, Volhynian Czechs and 1 more categories

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 1939 - 1941 - The first Soviet occupation of Galicia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia

Vladimír Baume

Second Lieutenant Vladimír Baum

* 1922 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain and 2 more anniversaries

Pavel Bednár in 1943

Pavel Bednár

* 1926

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

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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