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Hana Lobkowiczová, historical portrait

Hana Lobkowiczová

* 1928 †︎ 2025

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

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 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 and 6 more anniversaries

Otokar Löbl during Eye Direct recording in Prague, 2022

Otokar Löbl

* 1950

Germany, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Journalist, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Tomáš Lom 1945

Tomáš Lom

* 1924 †︎ 2021

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Royal Air Force

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

František Lorenc

* 1937

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Anastázie Lorencová, a photo of that time

Anastázie Lorencová

* 1920

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Lorencová Anna,2014

Anna Lorencová

* 1927 †︎ 2018

Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 3 more anniversaries

Soldier Jaroslav Losert, circa 1954

Jaroslav Losert

* 1933 †︎ 2024

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Sudeten Germans and 3 more categories

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 7 more anniversaries

Jiří Loskot

Jiří Loskot

* 1931

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Petr Louda, 1974

Petr Louda

* 1958

National minorities, Politician, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Graduation photo of Ljuba Loudilová

Ing. Ljuba Loudilová

* 1934

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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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