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Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Leo Schön in 2023

Leo Schön

* 1937

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

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

Herwig Schönfelder in 2023

Herwig Schönfelder

* 1939

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Sudeten Germans, Germany, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Heinz-Dieter Schumacher, Berlin 1989

Dr. Heinz-Dieter Schumacher

* 1956

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, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

November 1989 - at the western side of the border

Andreas Schumann

* 1953

Reception camp for GDR- refuges in Gießen, FRG, East German Refugee, Germany

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

Dorothea Maria Schweizer - May 17, 2014

Dorothea Maria Schweitzer

* 1932

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Anna Šebková (Stöhrová)

Anna Šebková

* 1935

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Franz Seidl, Olomouc, 2022

Franz Seidl

* 1934

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

František Severa in his childhood

František Severa

* 1947

Germany, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Oskar Georg Siebert, 1940s

Oskar Georg Siebert

* 1942

Germany, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Writer, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Gerhard Simchen, 2024

Gerhard Simchen

* 1945

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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