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Růžena Fučíková

Růžena Fučíková

* 1932

Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Zdeňka Fučíková in 1953

Zdeňka Simone Fučíková

* 1930

France, Emigrant, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1940 - The Battle of France, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Erika Fuksová (on right) during a ball in 1962

Erika Fuksová

* 1934

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Fedor Gabčan, Ostrava, 1987

Fedor Gabčan

* 1940

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Young Milan Gabčan

Milan Gabčan

* 1932 †︎ 2021

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Emília Gáboríková

Emília Gáboríková

* 1933

People helping Jews during WWII

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

Stephen Gaertner upon arrival in California, 1966

Stephen Gaertner

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Gaik Ryszard, Wroclaw, 2021

Ryszard Gaik

* 1936

Poland, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Victim of forced relocation, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands) and 1 more categories

1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands" , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Antonín Gajda

* 1925 †︎ unknown

Forced labour during the WW2, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 2 more anniversaries

Sláva Gajdošíková (Novotná)

Sláva Gajdošíková

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 1936 - 1938 - Great Terror in the USSR, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

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