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Marie Stiborová roz. Slouková

* 1932 †︎ 2022

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness - Jozef Štibrányi

Jozef Štibrányi

* 1940

National minorities, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, The Sportsmen, Art and censorship, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 10 more anniversaries

Riding a motorbike

František Štilec

* 1928 †︎ 2021

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

At the time of her graduation from secondary school

Eva Štixová

* 1941 †︎ 2025

Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Stoiber (2021)

Jan Stoiber

* 1937 †︎ 2024

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Young L. Stoklasa

Ludvík Stoklasa

* 1921 †︎ 2022

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Zdenka Štolcová in 1946

Zdenka Štolcová

* 1932

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Karel Stoll during graduation ceremony, 1957

Ing., CSc First Lieutenant Karel Stoll

* 1933

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Boy Scouts, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 1 more anniversaries

Olga Šťovíčková in 1963

Olga Šťovíčková

* 1925 †︎ 2024

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

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

Blažena Strachotová in Slavičín in 1927

Blažena Strachotová

* 1917 †︎ 2025

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 1 more anniversaries

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