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

Manfred Frey in the 1990s

Dr. Manfred Frey

* 1940

Austria, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 19.8.1989 - Pan-European Picnic

Hermann Frey, Pegnitz, 2020

Hermann Frey

* 1929 †︎ 2023

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Germany

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Friedrich Family 1936

Werner Friedrich

* 1931

Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

dobové foto.jpg (historic)

Hugo Fritsch

* 1933 †︎ 2016

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Erika Fuksová (on right) during a ball in 1962

Erika Fuksová

* 1934

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 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

Elsa Gabrielová -1957

Elsa Gabrielová

* 1934 †︎ 2015

National minorities, 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

Kitty Gald with her brother Kurt, Znojmo, 1940s.

Kitty Galdová

* 1930

Holocaust, National minorities

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

IMG_20180427_0001 (8) ořez.jpg (historic)

Alois Heinrich Galle

* 1937 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Gertruda Galle - 1947

Gertruda Galle

* 1932

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Dora Gebhardt, Pegnitz, 2020

Dora Gebhardt

* 1944

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

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