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Contemporary witnesses from Germany

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

Jari Vassinger

* 1946

Political prisoner, Germany, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia and 3 more categories

9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Ivo Vendolsky, Prague 2021

Ivo Vendolsky

* 1933

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Sieglinde Vendolsky in 2021

Sieglinde Vendolsky

* 1940

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

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

Anna Alma Vespalec

Anna Alma Vespalec

* 1921 †︎ 2013

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Germany

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

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