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

Václav Čeřovský 1945 in Czechoslovak uniform

Lieutenant Václav Čeřovský

* 1926 †︎ 2021

Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , The Partisan, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 5 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, January 21. 1945 Burning villages Klak, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty and 1 more anniversaries

Marta Charvátová after WWII

Marta Charvátová

* 1926

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Hidden people, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 2 more anniversaries

Václav Cigler in 2018

Václav Cigler

* 1929 †︎ 2026

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, University professor, Artists

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

cincala dobovy orez.jpg (historic)

Jozef Činčala

* 1921 †︎ 2007

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945 and 1 more categories

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 1 more anniversaries

Josef Cmíral

* 1915 †︎ unknown

French Foreign Legion, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, western front

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 1 more anniversaries

Witness Emil Coplák during recording

Emil Coplák

* 1937

Russia, French Foreign Legion, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan and 4 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, January 21. 1945 Burning villages Klak, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 3 more anniversaries

Imrich Danko

Imrich Danko

* 1923

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Photography from 1960

Ervín Arie David

* 1936

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Hidden people

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

Witness Zuzana Diamantová, 2025

Zuzana Diamantová

* 1938

Emigrant, Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

djacuk_vaclav_portret.jpg (historic)

Václav Djačuk

* 1920 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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