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Františka Hocková

Františka Hocková

* 1945

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Home in Rumburk on a leave from the barracks, 1965

Jaroslav Hocký

* 1946

Forced labour during the WW2, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 7 more anniversaries

Karel Hoder in firefighter's uniform during his time in the fire brigade in Letovice

Karel Hoder

* 1927 †︎ 2020

Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

Gerti Hoedt, Stráž nad Ohří, 2021

Gertrude (Gerti) Hoedt

* 1941

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

PN_Hoffmann_portret_dob.jpg (historic)

Ondřej Hoffmann

* unknown

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria

Hana Hoffmeisterová in 1928

MUDr. Hana Hoffmeisterová

* 1920 †︎ 2023

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

At work, 1987

MUDr. Vilém Hofman

* 1937

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

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 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 and 1 more anniversaries

In a childhood photo from the late 1940s

Horst Hofmann

* 1940

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Josef Hofmann in the Wehrmacht, 1944

Private (ret.) Josef Hofmann

* 1926 †︎ 2011

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Bohumila Hofmannová in her childhood

Bohumila Hofmannová

* 1935

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

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

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