23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation | Memory of Nations

The Hercl family in the early 1950s, Miloslava is standing in the middle

Miloslava Zímová

* 1933 †︎ 2025

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Václav Žitný

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Václav Žitný

* 1925 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR and 3 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 3 more anniversaries

1948 - graduation photo

Ladislav Žížala

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer, Historian

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Bohumil and his son are constructing an organ. 1980's

Bohumil Žloutek

* 1942

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Farmer, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ladislav Zošák - photo from criminal military service (1951)

Ladislav Zošák

* 1929

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Victim of forced relocation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State and 2 more anniversaries

Ludmila Švédová (Zouharová) - 1959

Ludmila Zouharová

* 1946

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Odbojová skupina bratří Mašínů, Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Václav Zumr, 1.12.2011

Václav Zumr

* 1925 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 2 more anniversaries

Marie Žváčková in 1965

Marie Žváčková

* 1945

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Maria Panaytaki, 2024

Марія Панайтакі Maria Panaytaki

* 1944

Ukraine, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer

Ukraine in 1990-s., 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Eduard Shepelskyi, 1982

Едуард Шепельський Eduard Shepelskyi

* 1946

Ukraine, National minorities, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

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