30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia | Memory of Nations

A photograph of Werner Hentschel from the University Index

Werner Hentschel

* 1945

Environmentalist, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

During the opening of the exhibition "Mladoboleslavsko in 1945", photo from 1990

PhDr. Karel Herčík

* 1936

Historian, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Politician, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 5 more anniversaries

Milena Hercíková on stage in 1970

Milena Hercíková

* 1936

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 22 May 1946 - Trial with K. H. Frank and 3 more anniversaries

Ludmila Hermanová - 1956

Ludmila Hermanová

* 1936

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Portrait of Eva Herzánová

Eva Herzánová

* 1933

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, Memory of vanished settlements

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Ondrej Hiadlovský in slovak army, year 1943

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Ondrej Hiadlovský

* 1922 †︎ 2020

The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Václav Hieke during one of the Czech Tourist Club events, 1985

Václav Hieke

* 1951

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Irena Hirai during recording in 2025

Irena Hirai

* 1960

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Alois Hiernich in September 2012

Alois Hirnich

* 1931 †︎ unknown

Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Ladislav Hladík at the age of eighteen (1945). That same year, he received a call-up papers to start fortification work

Ladislav Hladík

* 1927

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Hidden people

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

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