Illegal border crossing

Giora Amir, March 2017.

Giora Amir

* 1928

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Boy Scouts, Hidden people, Holocaust, Illegal border crossing and 4 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war and 3 more anniversaries

Batěk_pozadovany_orez_na_dobovy_portret.jpg (historic)

Pravoslav Batěk

* 1921 †︎ 2017

Forced labour during the WW2, Illegal border crossing, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2 and 1 more categories

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Karel Bečvář

Karel Bečvář

* 1931

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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František Beneš

* 1928

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Emigrant, Illegal border crossing

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Věra Benešová

Věra Benešová

* 1926

Boy Scouts, Illegal border crossing

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Bratislava airport before the departure to Prague - Beograd - Sydney, May 1980

Albín Berky

* 1953

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, A cultural celebrity, Art and censorship, Emigrant, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 2 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Antonín Bukový

Colonel (ret.) Antonín Bukový

* 1916 †︎ 2015

Illegal border crossing, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo and 3 more anniversaries

Fotis Bulguris

Fotis Bulguris

* 1935

Emigrant, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia, Illegal border crossing, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, National minorities and 1 more categories

28.10.194 - 23.4.1941 Greek- Italian war, 1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Josef Čermák

Josef Čermák

* 1924

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, A cultural celebrity, Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR) and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Václav Čeřovský 1945 v Československé uniformě

Lieutenant Václav Čeřovský

* 1926

A collaborator of the Soviet secret service, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Illegal border crossing, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2 and 8 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, January 21. 1945 Burning villages Klak, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty and 1 more anniversaries