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Karel Vaš

* 1916 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, A collaborator of the Soviet secret service and 5 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 3 more anniversaries

Antonín Vašek

Antonín Vašek

* 1922 †︎ 2012

Holocaust, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 4 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 3 more anniversaries

Michal Vasilko, 1944

Michal Vasilko

* 1924 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, The Partisan, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

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

Wawrečka (Vavrečka) František

Colonel (ret.) František Vavrečka

* 1920 †︎ 2012

Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Veteran of WW2, western front

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Miloš Vavrečka young – a photo of that time

Mgr. Miloš Vavrečka

* 1952

Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Death marches 1944-1945, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Jitka Vávrová in the early 1970s with her aunt Anežka Karasová, sister of the executed Antonín Zavřel

Jitka Vávrová

* 1969

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area

Ludevít Végh, 2003

Ludevít Végh

* 1921 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2, A cultural celebrity, National minorities and 6 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Jan Velík

Colonel (ret.) Jan Velík

* 1921 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Forced labour during the WW2, Red Army soldier and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 2 more anniversaries

Bohumil Venclík

Bohumil Venclík

* 1924 †︎ 2025

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Mr. Venglář

Alexander Venglář

* 1920

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Diplomat

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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