8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII | Memory of Nations

Petr Henzl in his youth

Petr Henzl

* 1935

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

Marie Henzlová in 2021

Marie Henzlová

* 1938

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marie Henzlová around 1950

Marie Henzlová

* 1930

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

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

During the opening of the exhibition "Mladoboleslavsko in 1945", photo from 1990

PhDr. Karel Herčík

* 1936

Historian, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Politician, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 5 more anniversaries

Milena Hercíková on stage in 1970

Milena Hercíková

* 1936

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 22 May 1946 - Trial with K. H. Frank and 3 more anniversaries

František Hercl

Mgr. František Hercl

* 1922

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jindřiška Herclíková at the age of seventeen (1945)

Jindřiška Herclíková

* 1928

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

The lieutenant colonel Jinřich Heřkovič

Jindřich Heřkovič

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 9 more anniversaries

Otto Herman at the military service in Jičín, 1970

Otto Herman

* 1949

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

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

Nora Hermanová, née Metzlová, České Budějovice, 1937

Nora Hermanová

* 1934

Holocaust, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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