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Marie Švirgová, roz. Svačinová

* 1936 †︎ 2022

A cultural celebrity, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

František Svoboda in 1949

František Svoboda

* 1930

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jaroslav Svoboda

Jaroslav Svoboda

* 1938 †︎ 2024

Sokol

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

Jiří Svoboda, 2014

Jiří Svoboda

* 1936

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Josef Svoboda

Josef Svoboda

* 1923

Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2

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

Eighteen-year-old Josef Svoboda in the army

Josef Svoboda

* 1926

Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Farmer

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Fights with Bandera's forces

Josef Svoboda several months before his arrest / 1949

Josef Svoboda

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Ing. Václav Svoboda

* 1929 †︎ 2019

Déclassé, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Vlastimil Svoboda (first from right) with his uncle and cousin in his native town of Zelów. 1993

Vlastimil Svoboda

* 1938 †︎ unknown

The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Border Guards, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 2 more categories

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

Helena Svobodová in 1974

Helena Svobodová

* 1951

Germany, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945) and 4 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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