Border Guards

Communism

Steun Eduard

Eduard Steun

* 1946

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Border Guards, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Stingl as a boy at the swimming pool in Hraničná

Prof. MUDr., CSc. Josef Stingl

* 1940

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Memory of vanished settlements

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 4 more anniversaries

Jan Stoiber (2021)

Jan Stoiber

* 1937

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Šebestián Šulc in the photo of that time

Šebestián Šulc

* 1939

Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jakub Sviták in 1971

JUDr. Jakub Sviták

* 1955

Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria

Vlastimil Svoboda (first from right) with his uncle and cousin in his native town of Zelów. 1993

Vlastimil Svoboda

* 1938 †︎ unknown

The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Border Guards, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jan Sýkora in the army in Bratislava, 1955

Jan Sýkora

* 1935

National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Old Scout Josef Tomášek at the St. Nicholas meeting in 2000

Josef Tomášek

* 1936

Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

R. Tomšů

Rudolf Tomšů

* 1941

Journalist, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Border Guards, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 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

Historical photography of the witness

Mikuláš Tóth

* 1956

Border Guards, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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