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Nineteen-year-old Erna Podhorská, née Dejmalová, in 1949

Erna Podhorská

* 1930

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Repatriated, Emigrants from Russia, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Podivínský during the recording for Memory of Nations, Olomouc, 31 May 2022

MUDr. Jiří Podivínský

* 1938

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Sokol, National minorities

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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 and 3 more anniversaries

15 years old

Klaudie Podlešáková

* 1931

Paměť českých neslyšících

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

Zbigniew Podleśny in 1966 as twentyseven years old

Zbigniew Marian Podleśny

* 1939

National minorities, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Slovak-Polish relations in years 1918 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Jan Podstatzky Lichtenstein as a young man, 1960

Hrabě Jan Podstatzky-Lichtenstein

* 1937

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Ivo Poduška as a youngster

Ivo Poduška

* 1936

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 7 more anniversaries

Skaut Josef Podzimek (Egil)

Ing. Josef Podzimek

* 1937

Boy Scouts, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 7 more anniversaries

Pogosyan Mesrov

Lieutenant (ret.) Mesrov Pogosyan

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier, Soldier of the Soviet Army

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Zdeňka Pohlová with her older brother after the war

Zdeňka Pohlová

* 1940

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Helena Pohořelská, 1961

Helena Pohořelská

* 1937

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

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