5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising | Memory of Nations

Jan Maryška, 1913

Jan Maryška

* 1890 †︎ 1976

Political prisoner in WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Hidden people, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

Václav Mašek in 2019

Ing. Václav Mašek

* 1941

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

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Mašín in youth

RNDr. Vladimír Mašín

* 1936

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Milan Matějček, Prague, 2025

Ing. Milan Matějček

* 1935

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Jaroslav Matějů as Scout

Jaroslav Matějů

* 1927 †︎ 2018

Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague

Young Jiří Materna

Jiří Materna

* 1932 †︎ 2010

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, Underage political prisoners

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth and 1 more anniversaries

Eugen Matijenko

* 1922 †︎ unknown

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Anti-communist rebel and 4 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 6 more anniversaries

Jiří Matulák 1973_detail.jpg (historic)

Jiří Matulák

* 1927

Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR)

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt

Christian Mayer

Christian Mayer

* 1923

Boy Scouts

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Rudolf Mejsnar playing the violin (1940s)

Rudolf Mejsnar

* 1928 †︎ 2022

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 8 more anniversaries

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