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

Eva Kopecká

Eva Kopecká

* 1922 †︎ 2019

Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Milan Kopecký in 1966

RNDr., CSc. Doc. Milan Kopecký

* 1937

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, University professor, 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, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

Helmut Kopetzky, Prague, 2024

Helmut Kopetzky

* 1940

Journalist, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

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

Adolf Köpf in 1960

Adolf Köpf

* 1938

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

Margarete Koppe, Pegnitz, 2020

Margarete Koppe

* 1928 †︎ 2023

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

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

Karel Koranda in 2021

Karel Koranda

* 1931

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Ferdinand Korbel with mother and sisters

Ferdinand Korbel

* 1944

Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Wedding photo of Hana Korcinová´s mother Brunhilda with her first husband Robert Simon, a Wehrmacht soldier, from March 6, 1943

Hana Korcinová

* 1952

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Forced labour during the WW2, Wehrmacht soldier, Life along the Iron Curtain

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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 and 1 more anniversaries

Jana Dušková during her studies in Havlíčkův Brod, 1950s

Jana Kořínková

* 1937

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle”, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering and 1 more anniversaries

Gernot Korndörfer, 2018

Gernot Korndörfer

* 1940

Sudeten Germans

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

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