8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII | Memory of Nations

Margita Naďová as a young girl

Margita Naďová

* 1931

Holocaust, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Vladimír Nadrchal in the second half of the 1950s in the jersey of Red Star Brno

Vladimír Nadrchal

* 1938

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Wedding photo of Jaroslav Najman from 1959

Jaroslav Najman

* 1936

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists, A cultural celebrity

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Václav Najman (probably 1945)

First Lieutenant (ret.) Václav Najman

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Forced labour during the WW2 and 4 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Twenty-one-year-old Antonín Najser in 1958

Antonín Najser

* 1937

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

March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Milan Nakonečný, 2020

Milan Nakonečný

* 1932 †︎ 2025

Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, University professor

23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Ota Nalezinek

Ota Nalezinek

* 1930

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Artists

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

Bohumila Naušová in 2019

Bohumila Naušová

* 1935 †︎ 2023

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Antonín Navrátil

* 1936

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Alois Navrátil

Alois Navrátil

* 1935

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

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