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Crossing the border at Dukla - in the foreground a flag bearer Vladimír Kunášek / Source: archive of Václav Širc

Vladimír Kunášek

* 1923 †︎ 2006

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 6 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín and 1 more anniversaries

Walter Kuratko at the end of WWII

Walter Kuřátko

* 1931

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Czech Minority in Klodzko County (Poland)

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Adolf Kůrka when drafted to the wehrmacht

Adolf Kůrka

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Wehrmacht soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Emílie Kuročenko (Tenglerová) -1961

Ing. Emilie Kuročenko (Tenglerová)

* 1944

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Ukraine

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Jan Kuruc in the Red Army-1945

Jan Kuruc

* 1926 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Red Army soldier

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Annemarie Kury, a portrait

Annemarie Kury

* 1932

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Austria

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

Josef Kusmič

Josef Kusmič

* 1929

Moravian Croats, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation

Jaromír Kutek

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 4 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 6 more anniversaries

Young Ingeborg Kutinová, 1950s

Ingeborg Kutinová

* 1930

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Life along the Iron Curtain

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Kutláková Jiřina - graduation photo 1957

Mgr. Jiřina Kutláková

* 1939

National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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