29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat | Memory of Nations

Josef Svoboda several months before his arrest / 1949

Josef Svoboda

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Hana Svobodová when she was fifteen years old, 1951

Hana Svobodová

* 1936

Déclassé, Sokol, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Vítězslav Svozil at the national team training in 1954

PaedDr. Vítězslav Svozil

* 1933

Relative of a political prisoner, The Sportsmen

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Jan Sýkora in the army in Bratislava, 1955

Jan Sýkora

* 1935

National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Witness in military uniform, 1940s

generálmajor Ing. Ignác Syrovátka

* 1914 †︎ 1998

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Déclassé, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 9 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 6 more anniversaries

Andrej Sziszák during EYD recording in New York, 2023

Andrej Sziszak

* 1957

United States of America, Hungary, Croatia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 19 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 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 and 22 more anniversaries

Václav Táborský

* 1928 †︎ 2025

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, A cultural celebrity

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Marta Talmanová

Marta Talmanová

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Pavel Tauber in 1945

Colonel (ret.) Pavel Tauber

* 1920 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Emigrant, Israel/Palestine and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign

Portrait

Otto Taussig

* 1926

Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

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