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Kateřina Willigová Frodlová in the 1960s

Kateřina Willigová Frodlová

* 1948

Homeland and Life, United Kingdom, Apatrida - osoba bez státního občanství, Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 3 more categories

17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Win Myint

* 1965

Burma/Myanmar

Portrait, taken from a family photo, at home in the garden, cca 1960

Barbara Winton

* 1953 †︎ 2022

A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, Winton’s Children, People helping Jews during WWII, Relatives of important personalities and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Sir Nicholas Winton in Prague, 2007

Sir Nicholas Winton MBE

* 1909 †︎ 2015

United Kingdom, Holocaust, Winton’s Children, People helping Jews during WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR

Nicholas Winton, Jr., Prague 2022

Nicholas Winton, Jr.

* 1952

People helping Jews during WWII, Relatives of important personalities, Winton’s Children, United Kingdom

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR

Irena Wiśniewska

Irena Wiśniewska

* 1934

Poland, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956

1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Witt Janusz, 2025

Janusz Witt

* 1934

Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Rosa with stepmother (with hat)

Rosa Wohlfeld

* 1927 †︎ 2024

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Germany

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Beata Iwona Wojnarowska

* 1963

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

Výjimečný stav v Polsku, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Maria Wolska as a schoolgirl, when her name was Maria Hauschke

Maria Wolska

* 1957

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, German minority in Poland after 1945

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

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