Holocaust

Holocaust

Jaroslav Plíšek's wedding photo from 1961

Prom. ped. Jaroslav Plíšek

* 1937

Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

The witness, portrait, 1957

Růžena Plíšková

* 1927

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, National minorities, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 3 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

Jiří Podivínský during the recording for Memory of Nations, Olomouc, 31 May 2022

MUDr. Jiří Podivínský

* 1938

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Sokol, National minorities

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Dagmar Podubecká

* 1926

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Milan Pokoradi during eyd recording

Milan Pokoradi

* 1948

Hungary, Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII and 13 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 17 more anniversaries

Old period photograph of Erna Pokorná, née Lamplová

Erna Pokorná

* 1931

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Petr Poláček, contemporary portrait. Prague, 1948

Ing. Petr Polacek

* 1936

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, Death marches 1944-1945, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Jiří Poláček

Jiří Poláček

* 1913 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster

Jiří Poláček in the cottage in Káraný in 1954

RNDr. Jiří Poláček

* 1938

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 3 more anniversaries

Arnošt Polák

Colonel Arnošt Polák

* 1923 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Holocaust, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR

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