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Marta Kadlecová as a young girl, 1944

Marta Kadlecová

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Zdenka Kadlecová, 1950s

Zdenka Kadlecová

* 1936

Emigrant, Holocaust, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death and 7 more anniversaries

Jiřina Kadlíková

* 1926

Boy Scouts

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

A current photo

Arnošt Kafka

* 1938

Illegal border crossing, Déclassé, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Kafka as a RAF pilot

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Jiří Pavel Kafka

* 1924

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Ladislav Kafka (1950)

Ladislav Kafka

* 1929

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner, Underage political prisoners, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Karel Kahoun

Karel Kahoun

* 1935 †︎ 2012

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Radomil Kaláb in 1963

Mons. doc. Ing. Radomil Kaláb , CSc.

* 1930 †︎ 2024

Member of an Illegal Church, Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Period portrait photography

Miroslav Kalaš

* 1933

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, A cultural celebrity

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation and 8 more anniversaries

Zdeněk Kohn shortly before the transport to the concentration camp, 1941

Zdeněk Kalenský

* 1935

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hidden people, Life along the Iron Curtain

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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