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Václav Polívka in his youth

Václav Polívka

* 1934 †︎ 2023

Volhynian Czechs, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, National minorities, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 1 more anniversaries

František Pollak at the end of the war

František Pollak

* 1931 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vladimir Pomortzeff v roce 2021

Vladimir Pomortzeff

* 1974

National minorities, Journalist, A cultural celebrity, Russia

Rudolf Pompe -1952

Rudolf Pompe

* 1933

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Antonina Ponomarenko, summer 2011

JUDr. Antonina Ponomarenko

* 1940

Victim of Nazi persecution in Ukraine, Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Political prisoner in WW2 and 3 more categories

Ukraine in 1990-s., Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine and 7 more anniversaries

Dimitrij Popjuk 23 years

Dimitrij Popjuk

* 1921 †︎ 2007

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, National minorities and 4 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 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, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 5 more anniversaries

Štefan Popjuk

* 1915 †︎ unknown

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, A communist interrogator, National minorities, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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 and 3 more anniversaries

Petr Popov

Ing., Arch. Petr Popov

* 1940

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

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ondrej Pöss with his mother Anna Pössová, née Schusterová, and his older brother Ján.

RNDr., CSc. Ondrej Pöss

* 1950

National minorities

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

Iryna Volodymyrivna Potapova, year 1960

Iryna Volodymyrivna Potapova

* 1940

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Relative of a political prisoner and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, Ukraine in 1986–1991

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