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František Šulák

František Šulák

* 1928

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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Colonel (ret.) Gustav Svoboda

* 1917 †︎ 2006

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Josef Svoboda

Josef Svoboda

* 1923

Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Eighteen-year-old Josef Svoboda in the army

Josef Svoboda

* 1926

Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Farmer

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Fights with Bandera's forces

Witness in military uniform, 1940s

generálmajor Ing. Ignác Syrovátka

* 1914 †︎ 1998

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Déclassé, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 9 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 6 more anniversaries

Ludvík Szingert, 1940

Nadpraporčík v.v. Ludvík Szingert

* 1922 †︎ 2016

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Věra Tichánková

Věra Tichánková

* 1920 †︎ 2014

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, A cultural celebrity

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Michal Tilňák

Michal Tilňák

* 1920 †︎ 2004

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov and 3 more anniversaries

Josef Václav Toman, 1992

Colonel (ret.) Josef Václav Toman-Tománek

* 1912 †︎ 2012

National minorities, Political prisoner in WW2, Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance, Radio Free Europe and 5 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 1 more anniversaries

Vanda Tomášková's high school graduation photo, Plzeň, 1961

Vanda Tomášková

* 1943

Participant in antifascist resistance, Witness of local events from the Communist era

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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