Germany | Memory of Nations

Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Anna Feigl between 1945 and 1948

Anna Feigl

* 1938

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

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

Maria Frank in 2018

Maria Frank

* 1938

Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion 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 - Expulsion 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 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Dora Gebhardt, Pegnitz, 2020

Dora Gebhardt

* 1944

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

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

Magdalena Geissler, Karlovy Vary, 2023

Magdalena Geissler

* 1935

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

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

Willi Gerlach with his borther Kurt, parents and grandmother Jischke

Willi Gerlach

* 1932

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

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories

Brigitta Gottmann, Prague, 2020

Brigitta Gottmann

* 1939

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, East German Refugee, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic

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