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Arnošt Lederer

Dr. private (ret.) Arnošt Lederer

* 1924 †︎ 2021

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Israel/Palestine, Participant in antifascist resistance and 1 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vilém Lederer at the end of occupation

Vilém Lederer

* 1942

Relative of a political prisoner, Hidden people

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 7 more anniversaries

Anna Lednická 2015

Anna Lednická

* 1932

Relative of a political prisoner, Member of Orel

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 9. 12. 1945 - Death of Father Antonin Vysloužil

Milena Ledvinková in 1948

Milena Ledvinková

* 1928

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Nina Ledvinová, 1945

Nina Ledvinová

* 1924

National minorities, Repatriated, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 5 more anniversaries

Ladislav Lehár, 1939

Ladislav Lehár

* 1920 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Lehejček František

František Lehejček

* 1927 †︎ 2016

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Elfrieda Lehnertová, a portrait

Elfrieda Lehnertová

* 1938

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Sudeten Germans and 4 more categories

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

Foto od O. Leisky in 1945 in Prague

Otakar Leiský

* 1925 †︎ 2020

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 6 more anniversaries

Jiří Lejsek in 1955

Jiří Lejsek

* 1937

Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity and 1 more categories

19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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