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

Jaromíra Kočnárová

Jaromíra Kočnarová

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Rastislav Kocour dring eyd recording in Bratislava, february 2023

Ing. Rastislav Kocour

* 1968

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Lidmila Kocourková

* 1936

Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

The witness in the middle, with sister Růžena (left), Marie Benešová (right) and Stanislav Vaňous (bottom), Litomyšl, 1939

Milada Kocourková

* 1930

Communist official, People helping Jews during WWII, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 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

Milan Kodejš, 2024

Milan Kodejš

* 1933

Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

The witness with a picture of President Masaryk, who played an interesting role in his father's story

Václav Kodytek

* 1953

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Miloslav Kofroň

Miloslav Kofroň

* 1920 †︎ 2020

Forced labour during the WW2, Sokol

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Erazim Kohák at the Boy Scouts camp of the Group 118 Praha in summer 1945

Professor Erazim Kohák

* 1933 †︎ 2020

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Boy Scouts, A cultural celebrity

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Emanuela Köhler in 1942

Emanuela Köhler

* 1924

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Milan Kohoutek in 2025

MUDr. Milan Kohoutek

* 1957

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 1 more anniversaries

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