Germany

International

Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Angelika Cholewa in police custody in the GDR. 1980

Angelika Cholewa

* 1955

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , GDR - outgoing passengers, Political prisoner in the GDR and 4 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Cramer hochkant.jpg (historic)

Michael Cramer

* 1949

Politician, Germany

13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Katharina Dötterl

Katharina Dötterl

* 1981

Germany, GDR - outgoing passengers

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Edith Ekanayake, Krnov 2022

Edith Herta Maria Ekanayake

* 1943

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Johann Eppinger, Neukirchen 2019

Johann Eppinger

* 1936

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Annelore Finková in 1942

Annelore Finková

* 1940

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, German minority in Poland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945) and 3 more categories

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

The house in Hyršov, where Anna Fischer spent her childhood

Anna Fischer

* 1927

Illegal border crossing, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Maria Frank in 2018

Maria Frank

* 1938

Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Friederike Frank, geb. Urbassek

Friederike Frank, geb. Urbassek

* 1926

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Hermann Frey, Pegnitz, 2020

Hermann Frey

* 1929 †︎ 2023

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Germany

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

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