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Josef Pánek during recording for Memory of Nations, 2023

Josef Pánek

* 1928

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 5 more anniversaries

Period photo of the witness

Ing. Miloš Panýr

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Forced labour during the WW2, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Parduba, (1923-2017)

Jiří Parduba

* 1923 †︎ 2017

Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 5 more anniversaries

Dana Paulová, a potrait photo of that time, Prague 1967

Dana Paulová

* 1950

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Déclassé, Participant in antifascist resistance and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

V. Pelzel

Second Lieutenant Viktor Pelzel

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Participant in antifascist resistance, Forced labour during the WW2

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich

Prof. Jaroslav Peprník, M.A., Ph.D. in 2018

Professor Jaroslav Peprník

* 1927

Forced labour during the WW2, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Jiří Pergl 17 years old

Ing. Jiří Pergl

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Communist official, Forced labour during the WW2, Déclassé, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol and 3 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Věra Pešková, 1st half of the 1960s

Věra Pešková

* 1926

Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

By the Labe river in Hradec Králové, 1962

Miloš Petera

* 1937 †︎ 2024

French Foreign Legion, Dissident, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 6 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Jaromír Petlach

Jaromír Petlach

* 1924 †︎ 2019

Official in JZD, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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