Memory of vanished settlements

Witness Jarmila Gajová in the Memory of Nations studio in 2023

Jarmila Gajová

* 1937

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements, The relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Gertruda Galle - 1947

Gertruda Galle

* 1932

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Ela Hadwigerová (Schubertová) - 1949

Ela Hadwigerová

* 1933 †︎ 2016

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Dagmar Hanzlová

Dagmar Hanzlová

* 1924 †︎ 2014

Forced labour during the WW2, Memory of vanished settlements, The Partisan, Sokol, Veteran of WW2, western front

1940 - The Battle of France, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Alois Harasko (ca. 1940)

Alois Harasko

* 1936

Historian, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Herejk in 1948, graduation photo

Ing. Jan Herejk

* 1928

Forced labour during the WW2, Déclassé, Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Alois Hiernich in September 2012

Alois Hirnich

* 1931 †︎ unknown

Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Richard Hofmann as a young man

Richard Hofmann

* 1944

Sudeten Germans, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jana Honomichlová, 1960s

Jana Honomichlová

* 1949

Memory of vanished settlements

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Reinhard Horn

* 1938

Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Farmer

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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