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Viktor Ráža

Lieutenant Viktor Ráža

* 1925 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

Archival photo

René Rechnitz

* 1921

National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Josef Regen

Josef Regen

* 1929

Moravian Croats, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation

Rudolf Reinold in his youth

Rudolf Reinold

* 1931

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Edita Reinoldová, historical photo

Edita Reinoldová

* 1937

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

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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ervín Reisky in 2019

Ervín Reisky

* 1931

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, National minorities and 2 more categories

Hugo Reiský in Heimat Flak, Peiskretcham 1944

Hugo Reiský

* 1927

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Wehrmacht soldier

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

Friedrich Reithmeier, 1950´s

Friedrich Reithmeier

* 1936

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

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

Doris' first school day in 1950

Doris Remešová

* 1944

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Anna Repaská

* 1923 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Holocaust, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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