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First Lieutenant Václav Pirožek

* 1924 †︎ 2020

Holocaust, National minorities, Hidden people, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

Photo from youth, around 1959

Jaroslav Pleva

* 1939

Hidden people, Victim of forced relocation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

František Pollak at the end of the war

František Pollak

* 1931

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

With the trophy

Juraj Pollák

* 1924

Emigrant, Holocaust, Hidden people, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Alena Popperová, a portrait

Alena Popperová

* 1932 †︎ 2022

Relative of a political prisoner, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Hidden people

Ing. Zdeněk Pošusta

* 1939 †︎ 2025

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Hidden people

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Hana Přikrylová at her graduation in Karolinum, 1969

Hana Přikrylová

* 1944

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Forced labour during the WW2, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

MVDr. Jaroslav Prokop

* 1925 †︎ 2023

Communist official, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Participant in antifascist resistance and 4 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Marie Raisiglová, née Ajšmanová, at Petřiny, 1944

Marie Raisiglová

* 1932

People helping Jews during WWII, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ing. Petr Rehák

* 1938

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Relatives of important personalities, Friars, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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