8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass | Memory of Nations

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

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Major (ret.) Sigmund Hladík

* 1927 †︎ 2021

Holocaust, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 1 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

Vladimír Hlaváček

Private First Class Vladimír Hlaváček

* 1921 †︎ 2010

Czech minority in the former USSR, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 2 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 1936 - 1938 - Great Terror in the USSR, 30.11.1939 - 13.3.1940 Winter War, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 4 more anniversaries

Júlia Hlavatá, historic photo

Júlia Hlavatá

* 1938 †︎ 2025

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Colonel Jiří Hofman

* 1923 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Halina Holbová

* 1923

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 3 more anniversaries

Josef Holec, 1945

Colonel (ret.) Josef Holec

* 1918 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), National minorities and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Lydia Horálková

Colonel (ret.) Lydie Horálková

* 1927 †︎ 2004

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, National minorities, The Partisan

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Jaroslava Hoťová in 2024

Jaroslava Hoťová

* 1951

Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Young Václav Houška as a Beekeeper

Václav Houška

* 1921

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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