Germany

International

Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Peter Johanek, Prague, 2022

Professor, Dr. Peter Johanek

* 1937

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, University professor

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

Kurt Kempe at the meeting of Postoloprty natives in Lichtenfels (first on the left), 1947

Kurt Kempe

* 1932 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Massacres in Postoloprty and 1 more categories

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

Jiri Kende, 1968

Jiří Kende

* 1951

Germany, Holocaust, Relatives of important personalities

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Rudolf Kiesewetter, Weidenberg, May 2019

Rudolf Kiesewetter

* 1932

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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

The mill in Stráž, 2021

Annemarie Kist

* 1933

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Oswald Kittel in 2021

Oswald Kittel

* 1929

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

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

Julie Klačková

Julie Klačková

* 1941 †︎ 2021

Germany, Forced labour during the WW2, Repatriated, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Mother, Günter and brother in a pram 1944/1945

Günter Klemenz

* 1941

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

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

Günther, aged two, in front of the apple-tree

Günther Klemm

* 1939

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

Peter Klepsch, Spalt, 2020

Peter Klepsch

* 1928

National minorities, Underage political prisoners, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, Death marches 1944-1945, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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