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Hans Lau with his brother Heinz as a Wehrmacht lance corporal in 1943

Hans Lau

* 1938

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Josef Lawitschka

Josef Lawitschka

* 1933

National minorities, Moravian Croats

Michael Lax. Cca 1955.

Michael Lax

* 1949

National minorities, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5.-10. 6. 1967 Six-Day War

Margita Lázoková, Brno, around 1965

Margita Lázoková

* 1945

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma

Dao Le Quang 2017

Dao Le Quang

* 1965

Emigrant, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Vietnamese minority in the Czech Republic, Vietnam

1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975 - Vietnam War

Nina Ledvinová, 1945

Nina Ledvinová

* 1924

National minorities, Repatriated, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 5 more anniversaries

Lefkovits Ivan

Ivan Lefkovits

* 1937

Emigrant, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial

Michal Legdan

Michal Legdan

* 1939

Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

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Mária Lendelová

* 1944

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Ján Lenský

Ján Lenský

* 1928

Emigrant, National minorities, Holocaust, Hidden people

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

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