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Pavel Oliva in 1946

Pavel Oliva

* 1923 †︎ 2021

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

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Hana Alisa Omer roz. Loewyová

* 1947

A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel)

Bedřich Opočenský

Bedřich Opočenský

* 1924 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, People helping Jews during WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 6 more anniversaries

Vladislav Opočenský

Vladislav Opočenský

* 1921 †︎ 2013

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

In 1952 in Prague

Ing. Tomáš Oráč roz. Offenberg

* 1928

Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Hidden people

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State and 1 more anniversaries

Tadeusz Oratowski at the end of the 1960s as commander of a tank platoon of the 11th Mechanized Regiment of the 4th Division.

Colonel Tadeusz Oratowski

* 1943

Poland, Holocaust, People's Army of Poland soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Paul Ort during an expedition in the Amazon, 1962

MUDr. Professor, MUDr. Paul Ort

* 1936

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Political prisoner in WW2 and 7 more categories

24. 10. 1942 - poprava 261 československých odbojářů v KT Mauthausen, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Österreicher Leo

Captain (ret.) Leo Österreicher

* 1925 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Alžbeta Ošvátová as twenty years old young woman

Alžbeta Ošvátová

* 1935

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Repatriated and 4 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

With daughter Eliška, 1978

Miluška Ottová

* 1943

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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