29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising | Memory of Nations

Marie Sidorová

Marie Sidorová

* 1919

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, A collaborator of the Soviet secret service, The Partisan, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Otto Šimko in 1939

Otto Šimko

* 1924 †︎ 2026

Holocaust, The Partisan, Hidden people, Prisoners in the labour camps in Nováky, Sereď and Vyhne in Slovakia

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Gustav Singer in 1945

Gustav Singer

* 1914 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 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 and 3 more anniversaries

Zuzana Skácelová (Alexanderová) - 1940

a graduate of Philology Zuzana Skácelová

* 1933

Holocaust, Victim of forced relocation, Hidden people, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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)

With black tabs

Marián Sklenka

* 1930

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Journalist, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Adolf Slamka as an employee of State forests in Kunerad

Adolf Slamka

* 1934

Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 5 more anniversaries

Ivan Sloboda Manchester in 1972

Ivan Sloboda

* 1946

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, People helping Jews during WWII, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Participant in the Slovak national uprising, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Dominik Slobodník

Dominik Slobodník

* 1932

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 16.2.1945 - burning down of the Slovak village Priechod

Pavel Slúka

* 1924 †︎ unknown

The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

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