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

On a contemporary picture

Štěpánka Jarůšková

* 1938

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Jarý as Handball Player of the Year 1974

Vladimír Jarý

* 1947

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26.8.-11.9.1972 - Summer Games of the XX Olympiad , Munich and 1 more anniversaries

A period photo

Helena Jasná

* 1931

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Ludmila Javorová

Ludmila Javorová

* 1932

Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Catholic clerical, Anti-communist rebel

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Miroslav Jech in the Caucasus in 1980

Miroslav Jech

* 1938

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Věra Jechová, 18 years old, Mladé Vožice

Věra Jechová

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Jedlička

* 1923 †︎ 2022

The Partisan, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

contemporary photo

Oldřich Jedlička

* 1922

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Jiřina Jedličková, period photograph

Jiřina Jedličková

* 1935

Lawyer, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 3 more anniversaries

Libuše Jedličková around the year 1945

Libuše Jedličková

* 1927

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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