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Luděk Bukač

Luděk Bukač

* 1935 †︎ 2019

Secret police informer, The Sportsmen, University professor

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 4 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Bukovský

Jaroslav Bukovský

* 1940 †︎ 2024

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Vladimíra Bukvicová, 1960s

Vladimíra Bukvicová

* 1948

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Communist official, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945 and 3 more categories

6. 4. - 17. 4. 1941 Dubnová válka (Německý útok na Jugoslávii) , 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 20 October 1944 - Liberation of Belgrade

Brigita Bulíčková as a child, late 1930s

Brigita Bulíčková

* 1934

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

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

Václav Bumbálek in uniform of a soldier of the Czechoslovak People's Army, 1952

Václav Bumbálek

* 1932

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Burdych Antonin orez.jpg (historic)

Antonín Burdych

* 1934 †︎ 2024

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Lubomír Burdych

Lubomír Burdych

* 1928

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Forced labour during the WW2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Petr Bureš

Petr Bureš

* 1949

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jan Bures as a little boy in 1947

Jan Bureš

* 1943

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hidden people

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 6 more anniversaries

Alexander Burger

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Alexander Burger

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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