Austria | Memory of Nations

Contemporary witnesses from Austria

Karl Affenzeller during childhood

Karl Affenzeller

* 1950

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Austria

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion 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 - Expulsion 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

Heinrich Böhm, Wels, 2023

Heinrich Böhm

* 1940

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

ruth boswell - portret dobovy.jpg (historic)

Ruth Boswell

* 1930

Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Austria

Little Johanna in Teplice

Johanna Cavagno

* 1939

Austria, Victim of forced relocation

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Manfred Frey in the 1990s

Dr. Manfred Frey

* 1940

Austria, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 19.8.1989 - Pan-European Picnic

H.-G. Grech, 1954

Hans-Günter Grech

* 1942

Austria, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

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