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Karel Paták

* 1931 †︎ 2014

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

On a walk with her mother, Prague, ca. 1944

Kristina Patočková

* 1941

National minorities, Relatives of important personalities, Friars, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial and 2 more anniversaries

Jarmila Patočková 2014

Jarmila Patočková

* 1922

National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Mikuláš Paul

* 1925 †︎ 2004

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

As a soldier of the basic military service, 1962

Milan Pavlů

* 1939

National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Writer and 5 more categories

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, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall and 2 more anniversaries

Second Lieutenant Jan Pavúk

* unknown

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, The Partisan, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Ewald Pechwitz, Pegnitz, 2020

Ewald Pechwitz

* 1938

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Margareta Peck (right), Eibenthal, latter 1950s

Margareta Peck

* 1948

Czechs from Banat, National minorities, German minority in Romania, Political prisoner in Romania, Romania

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Emilie Pecová before war

Emílie Pecová

* 1922 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Václav Pek in the cabinetmaker's shop

Václav Pek

* 1948

Romania, Czechs from Banat, Representative of the Church, National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 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, 22. 4. 1996. - 10. 6. 1999. Kosovská válka

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