Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 | Memory of Nations

Kazimir Morozovič

Kazimír Morozovič

* 1937

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka, 1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine and 6 more anniversaries

Antonín Moťovič. Prague 1950´s

Antonín Moťovič

* 1927

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 8 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 1941, August 27-28 - Mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi and 1 more anniversaries

František Motyčka

František Motyčka

* 1924

Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, The Partisan, Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Fights with Bandera's forces

František Mráz in the army

František Mráz

* 1934

Hungarian from Transylvania, National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Vladimír Musílek as a legionnaire

Vladimír Musílek

* 1926 †︎ unknown

French Foreign Legion, A secret police collaborator, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Václav Najman (probably 1945)

First Lieutenant (ret.) Václav Najman

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Forced labour during the WW2 and 4 more categories

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, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Emilie Nesvadbová - 2017

Emilie Nesvadbová

* 1935

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Relative of a political prisoner, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín

Libuše Nidetzká (Čechová) in 1947

MUDr. Libuše Nidetzká

* 1933

Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Volhynian Czechs

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

childhood before the war

Eva Nosková

* 1936 †︎ 2015

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR

Richard Novák during the interview in 2012

Mgr. Richard Novák

* 1930

Representative of the Church, National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Non-Catholic clerical and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin

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