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Sempfer Kosolofski, 1946

Sempfer Kosolofski

* 1933

Romania, Germany, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hidden people and 3 more categories

17.6.1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Irena Muchová during her studies at the Business Academy in Jihlava

Ing. Irena Košťálová

* 1930

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of forced relocation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Jarmila Kostecká, 1951

Jarmila Kostecká

* 1933 †︎ 2024

Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 5 more anniversaries

Wedding photograph of Ludmila Koštejnová, 1958

Ludmila Koštejnová

* 1935

Déclassé, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Life along the Iron Curtain

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, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 7 more anniversaries

Gerhold Kostelnik, 1968

Gerhold Kostelník

* 1937

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Vilibald Kostelník, Hlučín, October 1972

Vilibald Kostelník

* 1940 †︎ 2024

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, 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

Stanislav Kostiha (middle) with his adoptive mother Blažena Kostihová (right) and his biological mother Hedvika Hanzelková, 1941

Stanislav Kostiha

* 1939

Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, Clergymen, Vicar without State agreement, Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Likvidace starého Mostu, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

František Kostner

František Kostner

* 1920 †︎ 2014

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, The Partisan, Sokol and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Ladislav Kostovič

* 1927 †︎ 2016

National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Repatriated, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance and 1 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

After the war injury

ThDr. Daniel Kostsánszky

* 1929 †︎ 2020

Non-Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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