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Bridget Cooper, 2023

Bridget Cooper

* 1956

Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, United Kingdom

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Dalibor Coufal as a young man

Ing. Dalibor Coufal

* 1930 †︎ 2020

Victim of forced relocation, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sokol

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 4 more anniversaries

František Coufal at the military service, 1957

František Coufal

* 1937 †︎ 2025

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Bohumila Coufalová in her youth

Bohumila Coufalová

* 1923

Member of Orel, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, 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, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa

authentic foto

Alena Crhová

* 1938

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Farmer

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 1 more anniversaries

Bohuslav Čtvrtečka at military service, 1961-1963

Bohuslav Čtvrtečka

* 1943

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, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

As a young man

František Čuban

* 1941

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, 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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Dušan Čurda, current photograph

Dušan Čurda

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Hana Cuřínová on her 75th birthday (2009)

Mgr. Hana Cuřínová

* 1934

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

František Cvingráf, 8.7.2015

František Cvingráf

* 1923

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Forced labour during the WW2, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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