Czechs from Banat

National Minorities

Josef Kobau in September 2022, Eibenthal - Romania

Josef Kobau

* 1949

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Victim of forced relocation

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Josef Kocman, filming for Paměť národa, October 2021 in Sfânta Elena, Romania

Josef Kocman

* 1946

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Adolf Kopřiva at the age of 33 when he worked as a preacher

Adolf Kopřiva

* 1957

Romania, Czechs from Banat, Representative of the Church, National minorities, Non-Catholic clerical and 2 more categories

16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Jan Kotešovec, September 2022, Eibenthal

Jan Kotešovec

* 1937

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Rudolf Krivanek after his arrival in Czechoslovakia, 1963

Rudolf Křivánek

* 1934

Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Farmer, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Josef Mašek, born in 1955 in Gerník

Josef Mašek

* 1955

Romania, Czechs from Banat, Czech minority in the Serbia, National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Father Václav Mašek

Monsignor Václav Mašek

* 1941

Representative of the Church, A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Czechs from Banat, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution, 1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Josef Maštalíř in 2021

Josef Maštalíř

* 1950

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Josef Merhaut in 1978

Josef Merhaut

* 1959

Romania, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Czechs from Banat and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Václav Merhaut, recording for Memory of Nations, Pilsen, December 2023

Václav Merhaut

* 1951

Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Farmer

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

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