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Ilse Weitz in 2020

Ilse Weitz

* 1935

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Austria

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

María C. Werlau

María C. Werlau

* 1959

Cuba, Emigrant, Cuban Dissident, 26th of July Movement, Cuban Exile

Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba after 1959, Cuba before 1959, Dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

Miroslav Alan Westcott

Ing. Alan Miroslav Westcott Doležal

* 1943

United Kingdom, Emigrant, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Urban Westling arrested during a protest against the Soviet days in Stockholm

Urban Westling

* 1956

Supporter of Czechoslovak dissent from a western country, Sweden

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Witness Beata Zázrivcová during recording her life story

Beata Westrych Zázrivcová

* 1960

Poland, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Rosa Leonor Whitmarsh y Dueñas

Rosa Leonor Whitmarsh y Dueñas

* 1930 †︎ 2023

Cuba, Emigrant, Cuban Dissident

Thomas Wieske in GDR prison

Professor, Dr. Thomas Wieske

* 1958

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , The ransom of political prisoners in the GDR, University professor, Political prisoner in the GDR, East German Refugee and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Wanda (Berta) Wija

Wanda (Berta) Wija

* 1925

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army

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Gudrun Wilcke-Pausewang

* 1928 †︎ 2020

A cultural celebrity, Sudeten Germans, Germany, Refugee, Illegal border crossing and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Tadeusz Wilk, military service in the navy, 1966 - 1969

Tadeusz Wilk

* 1946

Poland, Relative of a political prisoner, People's Army of Poland soldier, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita

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