Austria

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Contemporary witnesses from Austria

Karl Affenzeller during childhood

Karl Affenzeller

* 1950

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Austria

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Gottfried Bach, Slavonice, 2020

Gottfried Bach

* 1940

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Austria

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Richard Alain Belcredi, 2024

Richard Alain Belcredi

* 1953

Austria, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Déclassé, Nobility

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

ruth boswell - portret dobovy.jpg (historic)

Ruth Boswell

* 1930

Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Austria

Britta del Missier 2023

Britta Del Missier

* 1964

Austria

Brunhilde Dörer-Nimerrichter 2022

Brunhilde Dörer-Nimmerrichter

* 1936

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

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

Before the draft to Bundeswehr

Werner Grubeck

* 1952

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Austria

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Johannes Gutmann in 2022

Johannes Gutmann

* 1965

Austria, Environmentalist

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Aglaë Hagg-Thun, Praha, 2023

Aglaë Hagg-Thun

* 1955

Nobility, Austria

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

Otmar Kowar as a mayor of Unsferau-Altweitra town (around 2018)

Otmar Kowar

* 1968

Politician, Farmer, Life along the Iron Curtain, Austria

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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