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Michal Hečka

Major (ret.) Michal Hečka

* 1924 †︎ 2023

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, The Partisan, Red Army soldier and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Witness in Bohemia on her first bike wearing a blouse from Germany, 1959 or 1960

Sonja Hefele

* 1949

Germany, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Kurt Hein, Pegnitz, 2020

Kurt Hein

* 1929 †︎ 2024

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

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

Jitka Helanová around 1980

Jitka Helanová

* 1937

National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Hilde Heller

* 1923

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Helmut Hempel - first day at school

Helmut Hempel

* 1938

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Annelies Hennig - a photo of that time before 1989

Annelies Hennig

* 1939

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, East German Refugee, Victims of East-German secret police (Stasi) and 1 more categories

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

A photograph of Werner Hentschel from the University Index

Werner Hentschel

* 1945

Environmentalist, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

Louise Hermanová

Louise Hermanová

* 1916 †︎ 2013

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

In 1962 as a high school graduate

Václav Herout

* 1943

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Historian, National minorities

1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence

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