Emigrants from Russia

Roman Frait as a 7 years old boy, Brno 1942

Roman Frait

* 1935

Apatrida - osoba bez státního občanství, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Emigrants from Russia and 3 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Nina Ingris

Nina Ingrišová

* 1931

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Cossacks, Czech community in the US and 5 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Kateřina Irmanova 2017

Kateřina Irmanovová

* 1947

Relatives of important personalities, Emigrants from Russia

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 1936 - 1938 - Great Terror in the USSR

Drahoslava Janderová with her daughter Tereza

Drahoslava Janderová

* 1946

Dissident, Relatives of important personalities, Anti-communist rebel, Emigrants from Russia, Charter 77 signatory and 6 more categories

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 31. 10. 1967 – Spontaneous student demonstration in Prague, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 4 more anniversaries

Vladimír Janoušek a photo of that time

Vladimír Janoušek

* 1924 †︎ 2020

Forced labour during the WW2, Emigrants from Russia, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising and 1 more anniversaries

Andrei Karelin detained by the police during a demonstration in 2020

Andrei Karelin Андрей Карелин

* 2002

Human Rights Defender, Russia, Dissident, Emigrant, Emigrants from Russia

2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Mgr. Václav Majer

* 1930

Holocaust, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Emigrants from Russia, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 3 more categories

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 6 more anniversaries

In a Sokol movement costume, 1946

Ing. arch. Jiří Merger

* 1940

Russia, National minorities, Emigrants from Russia

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Nineteen-year-old Erna Podhorská, née Dejmalová, in 1949

Erna Podhorská

* 1930

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Repatriated, Emigrants from Russia, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Dimitri Rafalský 2017

Dimitri Rafalský

* 1930 †︎ 2021

Emigrant, National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Emigrants from Russia, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 4 more categories

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

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