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Josef Heldes

Josef Heldes

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

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, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Portrait of Eva Herzánová

Eva Herzánová

* 1933

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, Memory of vanished settlements

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Witness at the time of the filming for Post Bellum, 2024

Cecílie Hlaváčková

* 1941

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Josef Hofmann in the Wehrmacht, 1944

Private (ret.) Josef Hofmann

* 1926 †︎ 2011

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in 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 - Expulsion 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

horn_dobova.jpg (historic)

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 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Jan Hrad as a sergeant in 1967

Jan Hrad

* 1937

Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

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