8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII | Memory of Nations

Jaroslav Adámek as a train driver

Jaroslav Adámek

* 1953

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Markéta Šonková, 1960s

Markéta Šonková

* 1936

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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Adolf Absolon (1958)

RNDr., CSc. Adolf Absolon

* 1937

Boy Scouts, Scientist, Artists, A cultural celebrity, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 4 more anniversaries

Ervín Adam

M.D.Ph.D. MD. Ph.D. Ervín Adam

* 1922 †︎ 2024

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Scientist and 2 more categories

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1941, August 27-28 - Mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi, Death marches 1944-1945 and 6 more anniversaries

Jefstavij Oleksijovyč Adamčuk in the Soviet Armed Forces (in the middle), 1956

Jefstavij Oleksijovyč Adamčuk

* 1937

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer and 2 more categories

1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Ukraine in 1986–1991, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Marija Arsenivna Adamčuk, a portrait

Oleksandra Arsenivna Adamčuk

* 1937

Political prisoner in WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukraine

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

the witness Ivan Adam as a soldier in the basic military service

Ivan Adame

* 1943 †︎ 2021

Anti-communist rebel, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 4 more anniversaries

Hanuš Adamec

Hanuš Adamec

* 1928 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Hazebrouck, 24.4.1945

Lieutenant (ret.) Josef Adámek

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, western front

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Olga Adamkova, 1950s

Olga Adámková

* 1932

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

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