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Helena Kleinová

* 1948

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Israel/Palestine, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 4 more anniversaries

Slavomír Klika during his military service

Slavomír Klika

* 1951

Official in JZD, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Communist official, Underage political prisoners, Forced labour during the WW2 and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Twelve-year-old Ivan Klíma

Mgr. Ivan Klíma

* 1931 †︎ 2025

Dissident, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Journalist, Art and censorship

27. – 29. 6. 1967 - The 4th Congress of Czech Writers, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt

Monument to American soldiers who fell into the Nazi trap at Zhůří, Miroslav Klíma on the right

Miroslav Klíma

* 1927

Official in JZD, People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Otto Klíma

Otto Klíma

* 1910 †︎ 2006

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign

As a young man

Master of Fine Arts Jan Klusák

* 1934

A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Art and censorship

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

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Miroslav Knol

* 1925

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Audrey Knoth visiting Tábor in May 2025

Audrey Knoth

* 1959

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, United States of America

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Josef Kobler with beard against the occupation, 1969

Josef Kobler

* 1934

Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Karel Köcher

Karel Köcher

* 1934

Holocaust, Czech community in the US, Radio Free Europe, A collaborator of the Soviet secret service, University professor and 1 more categories

1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975 - Vietnam War, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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