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

Vasil Špir on a contemporary photograph from the time of the Second World War

Vasil Špir

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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 and 4 more anniversaries

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Josef Srkal

* 1932

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Repatriated

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, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

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Anatolij Tichonovič Stančenko

* 1925 †︎ 2006

Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Red Army soldier, Fighter in Belarusian partisan units during WWII, Belarus

20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Halina Staňková in 1937

Halina Staňková

* 1936 †︎ 2024

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 5 more categories

23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Stárek Miroslav

Miroslav Stárek

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

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, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 1 more anniversaries

Ferdinand Stasek

Colonel (ret.) Ferdinand Stasek

* 1921 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

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, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Boleslav Štěpánek

Master Sergeant (ret.) Boleslav Štěpánek

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 2 more anniversaries

Karel Štěpánek in Svoboda army

Karel Štěpánek

* 1907 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner

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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 3 more anniversaries

Anna Strelkov

Anna Strelkov, roz. Hofmanová

* 1925

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 1 more anniversaries

Věra Suchopárová, Skřivánková (1923), radio operator of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps

Věra Suchopárová

* 1923 †︎ 2022

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army) and 4 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 5 more anniversaries

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