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

Ruth Bejkovská

Ruth Bejkovská

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

A graduation photography of Jaroslav Běla from 1947

Ing. Jaroslav Běl

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 5 more anniversaries

Pavol Beláň at the border guards (1971)

Pavol Beláň

* 1951

Border Guards, Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Richard Belcredi as a young boy

Richard Belcredi

* 1926 †︎ 2015

Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

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Stanislav Bělík

* 1919 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities and 3 more anniversaries

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Rudolf Bělohoubek

* 1933 †︎ 2009

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

M. Benda- period portrait

Miloslav Benda

* 1919

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Benno Beneš during the military service

Pater Benno Beneš

* 1938 †︎ 2020

Member of an Illegal Church, Catholic clerical, Friars

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Věra Benešová during her studies at the grammar school - 1950s

Věra Benešová

* 1933

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Vladimír Beran in Czechoslovakian army troop (builder´s company- Prague 1945)

Vladimír Beran

* 1925 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

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