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Witness Jiří Zaťovič

Jiří Zaťovič

* 1962

National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Writer, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Zdražilová Alžběta

Alžběta Zdražilová

* 1928

Holocaust, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Israel/Palestine, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 1 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Miluška Zedníčková (Břečková)

Miluška Zedníčková

* 1924

Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, The Partisan, Sokol, Border Guards

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Josef Zelený

* 1921 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, The Partisan and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Hildegard Zemanová (Morávková)

Hildegarda Zemanová

* 1926

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Georgia Zerva

Georgia Zerva

* 1946

Greece, National minorities, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia

1944 - 1949 Greek civil war

Liselote - usual childhood

Liselotte Židová

* 1930 †︎ 2014

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, People helping Jews during WWII

Josef Zíka in 1950s as a member of the Auxiliary Technical Battalions

Josef Zíka

* 1931

National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Vladimír Zikmund in Congo during the smallpox eradication campaign. He is showing a jet injector to the Minister of Health of Congo (far right, wearing a fur hat).

MUDr. Vladimír Zikmund CSc.

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Boy Scouts, Sudeten Germans and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Bohdan Zilynskyj, Prague, 2024

Bohdan Zilynskyj

* 1954

Ukraine, Historian, National minorities, Ukrainian political emigration 1944-1950, Scientist

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

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