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Lengyel Gabriella

Gabriella Lengyel

* 1948

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, Victim of the political police in Hungary

Bernard Lesfargues in his garden (2013, photo by Inge Kresser)

Bernard Lesfargues

* 1924 †︎ 2018

National minorities, Writer, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity, France

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Stefan Leśków, Wrocław, 2021

Stefan Leśków

* 1933

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1939 - 1941 - The first Soviet occupation of Galicia, Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Josef Lesný, picture from military ID

Josef Lesný

* 1911 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Holocaust, Red Army soldier, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW, Hungary

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Vasyl Lesyshin (on the photo - the first person on the left side) with friends from Latvia, special settlement Ust-Shysh, winter of 1952 or 1953.

Vasyl Lesyshyn Василь Лесишин

* 1947

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

Juliana Libári during the EYD recording

Julianna Libári

* 1943

Hungary, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Hans Adam II., 2018

Hans Adam II. Liechtenstein

* 1945

Liechtenstein, Relatives of important personalities, Nobility, A cultural celebrity

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Librado Ricardo Linares García

Librado Ricardo Linares García

* 1960

Cuba, Dissident, Cuban Dissident, Cuban Political Prisoner, Political prisoner

Black Spring of Cuba 2003, Cuba after 1959

Peter Linhart as a boy in Nejdek

Professor, Dr. Peter Linhart

* 1938 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, University professor, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

The witness Linn Thant - a photo of that time

Linn Thant လင် အထက်

* 1969

Burma/Myanmar, Dissident, Journalist, Political prisoner

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