People helping Jews during WWII | Memory of Nations

witness Margita Duchová in her youth

Margita Duchová

* 1926 †︎ 2022

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, The Partisan and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Anna Ďurišová as a young girl

Anna Ďurišová

* 1938

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

Detail of a photograph from a private forbidden board (1974)

PhDr. Jiří Dvořák

* 1955

Historian, People helping Jews during WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, University professor, Life along the Iron Curtain

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Photo from the studies at the Private Business School Ing. Evžen Maděra in Prague 2, 1942

Květa Dvořáková

* 1928

People helping Jews during WWII, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle”

Luděk Eliáš in 1946

Luděk Eliáš

* 1923 †︎ 2018

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto and 3 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jarmila Erbanová

Jarmila Erbanová

* 1944

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Eva Erbenová, 1948

Eva Erbenová

* 1930

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 6 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Annotation photo Anny Holatková (Foglové)

Anna Foglová

* 1938 †︎ 2025

Czech minority in the former USSR, People helping Jews during WWII, National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Memory of vanished settlements and 4 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

Věra with a kitten

Věra Fořtová

* 1942

People helping Jews during WWII, Relative of a political prisoner

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Hana Fousová, nee Reinvald, as a child

Hana Fousová

* 1934

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps, A secret police collaborator and 4 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

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