Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2 | Memory of Nations

Vaněk Pavo

Ing., Colonel Pavol Vaněk

* 1921 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, National minorities, The Partisan and 2 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

foto Karel Vaš z Národního archivu dobova.jpg (historic)

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

Eva Vavroušková, 2019

Ing. Eva Vavroušková

* 1940

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 5 more anniversaries

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

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

Žofie Vernerová (Maierová)- Vidnava, October 2010

Žofie Vernerová

* 1923 †︎ 2015

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

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

Karel Veselý

MUDr. Karel Veselý

* 1916

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, The Partisan

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Viktor Veverka, a portrait

Viktor Veverka

* 1923 †︎ 2021

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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