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Jaroslav Matějů as Scout

Jaroslav Matějů

* 1927 †︎ 2018

Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague

Bernard Materne

Bernard Materne

* 1933

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Manfred Matička in his youth

Manfred Matička

* 1938 †︎ 2024

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Eugen Matijenko

* 1922 †︎ unknown

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Anti-communist rebel and 4 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 6 more anniversaries

Luisa Matlová (1946)

Luisa Matlová, roz. Štýrová

* 1916 †︎ 2020

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Relatives of important personalities, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vladimír Matoušek, 1940s

Ing., Arch. Vladimír Matoušek

* 1921

Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Déclassé and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jitka Matoušková

Jitka Matoušková

* 1920 †︎ 2017

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Journalist, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR) and 5 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 3 more anniversaries

Luisa Matoušková on a ČZ scooter during a promotional trip to Slovakia, 1950s

Luisa Matoušková

* 1930 †︎ 2025

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Relatives of important personalities, Artists

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Vlasta Matoušová working in her studio, the 1980s

Vlasta Matoušová

* 1955

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists, A cultural celebrity

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Studentské pochody na Pražský hrad, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Helena Matrasová, née Dercová, about 15 years old, Varnsdorf, circa 1950

Helena Matrasová

* 1935 †︎ 2026

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Slovak-Polish relations in years 1918 - 1945, Life along the Iron Curtain, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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