22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR | Memory of Nations

Jaroslav and russian soldier in hospital in Rimanuv Zdrój

Captain Jaroslav Sitar

* 1927 †︎ 2024

National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Olga Sitařová

* 1926 †︎ 2020

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR

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

Michal Skiba in 1944

Michal Skiba

* 1919

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, The Partisan, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Miroslav Škrábal

Second Lieutenant Miroslav Škrabal

* 1927 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Holocaust

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

Škrabánková Marie

Lieutenant (ret.) Marie Škrabánková

* 1925 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Relative of a political prisoner, People helping Jews during WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Maria Soldjatjuk - 2010

Maria Soldaťjuková

* 1935

Relative of a political prisoner, Czech minority in the former USSR, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainians in the GULAG, 1944 - 1990, Ukraine

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 , Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950 and 3 more anniversaries

Dimitrij Somol

Dimitrij Somol

* 1916 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Relative of a political prisoner and 1 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, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín

Vladimír Šotola

Vladimír Šotola

* 1928 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín

Jaroslav Souček, January 27, 2010

Jaroslav Souček

* 1921 †︎ 2016

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 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 and 3 more anniversaries

A present-day picture of Vladimír Souček

Vladimír Souček

* 1915

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier, Soldier of the Soviet Army

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

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