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Miroslav Vaňáček at the beginning of his career as a fighter pilot

pplk. Miroslav Vaňáček

* 1931 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Emilie Vančurová

Emilie Vančurová

* 1921

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vaněk Vítězslav Evermod

Vítězslav Evermod Vaněk

* 1922

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced labour during the WW2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

Dobromila Vaňková

PhDr. Dobromila Vaňková

* 1925

Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, People connected to the ČIN magazine (scouts)

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

František Varaďa while recording the interview, 2020

František Varaďa

* 1932

Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 8 more anniversaries

Emilie Varská

Emilie Varská, roz. Andělová

* 1923

Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Forced labour during the WW2, Czech minority in the former USSR and 3 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

A period photograph of Oldřich Vašák

Oldřich Vašák

* 1926

Forced labour during the WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Antonín Vašek

Antonín Vašek

* 1922 †︎ 2012

Holocaust, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 4 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 3 more anniversaries

Jiřina Vašíčková fifteen years old

Jiřina Vašíčková

* 1922

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ludevít Végh, 2003

Ludevít Végh

* 1921 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2, A cultural celebrity, National minorities and 6 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

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