Germany | Memory of Nations

Contemporary witnesses from Germany

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 1 more categories

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

Emil Klier

Emil Klier

* 1926 †︎ 2020

Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Memory of vanished settlements, Germany

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

Helene Klier, roz. Fischer

Helene Klier, roz. Fischer

* 1933

Sudeten Germans, Germany

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Dietrich Koch

Dietrich Koch

* 1937 †︎ 2020

Germany

Emanuela Köhler in 1942

Emanuela Köhler

* 1924

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Franz Konrad, 2020, Pegnitz

Franz Konrad

* 1934 †︎ 2024

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

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

Margarete Koppe, Pegnitz, 2020

Margarete Koppe

* 1928 †︎ 2023

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Sempfer Kosolofski, 1946

Sempfer Kosolofski

* 1933

Romania, Germany, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hidden people and 3 more categories

17.6.1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

As a young woman in Germany

Franziska Krampfl

* 1931

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

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

Fritz Kraus

Friedrich Kraus

* 1933

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

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