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Jaroslav Ludvík-

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Jaroslav Ludvík

* 1925 †︎ 2022

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Ludvík as a school-leaver (1943)

RNDr., CSc. Jiří Ludvík

* 1924 †︎ 2016

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, Scientist, Zpravodajská brigáda 1939 - 1945

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Pauli Luft

Pauli Luftová

* 1935

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Cyril Luhan 1947-1948

Ing., CSc Cyril Luhan

* 1929

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

In youth

Dušan Lukášik

* 1929

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Déclassé

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Zdeňka Lukašíková travelling after 1989

Zdeňka Lukašíková

* 1929

Member of an Illegal Church, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Aloisie Lukášová with her brother Stanislav, Moravičany 1946

Aloisie Lukášová

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 5 more anniversaries

Anna Lukešová in 1962

Anna Lukešová

* 1935

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, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Dana Lukešová (left) with her father František Plánička and older sister Milena, late 1930s

Dana Lukešová

* 1935

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Jiřina Lukešová, around 1950

Jiřina Lukešová

* 1932

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

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