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Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Foto Szielasko alt.jpg (historic)

Lothar Szielasko

* 1935

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), East German Refugee, Germany

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic, 17.6.1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

Antonina Szymkiewicz

Antonina Szymkiewicz

* 1921

German minority in Poland after 1945, Germany

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Adolf Tahedl, Neukirchen 2019

Adolf Tahedl

* 1940

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Thomas Thun, 2021

Thomas Thun

* 1949

Nobility, Germany

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

Josef Tichý at Technical auxiliary battalions

Josef Tichý

* 1932

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) and 4 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

Inge Tietjen during the war playing the accordion she was given for her fifth birthday

Inge Tietjen

* 1928 †︎ 2023

Germany, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Tomáš Titze, Rumburk, about 1960

Tomáš Titze

* 1945 †︎ 2023

Germany, Déclassé, Political prisoner in WW2, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

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 8 more anniversaries

Gertruda Turnová on a belt conveyor on the state farm in Království u Šluknova, 1963

Gertruda Turnová

* 1928 †︎ 2025

Foreigner living in Czechoslovakia before the year 1989, Refugee, Germany, Illegal border crossing, Memory of vanished settlements and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Tuszyński Otton

Otton Tuszyński

* 1933

German minority in Poland after 1945, Germany

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Inge in 2016

Inge Urbassek

* 1933

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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