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Věra Suchopárová, Skřivánková (1923), radio operator of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps

Věra Suchopárová

* 1923 †︎ 2022

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army) and 4 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 5 more anniversaries

As a musician in a music band

Stanislav Švarc

* 1925 †︎ 2019

National minorities, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Relative of a political prisoner, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, Ukraine in 1986–1991 and 2 more anniversaries

Emílie Švecová in 1947

Emílie Švecová

* 1935

National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Volhynian Czechs

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Evžen Švihlík at the age of sixteen.

Evžen Švihlík

* 1930

Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Red Army soldier, Volhynian Czechs, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 5. 7. 1943 - 5. 8. 1943 - Battle of Kursk, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Vlastimil Svoboda (first from right) with his uncle and cousin in his native town of Zelów. 1993

Vlastimil Svoboda

* 1938 †︎ unknown

The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Border Guards, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Karel Szatan

* 1926

Emigrant, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Erika Tampierová in Mariánské Lázně 1958

Erika Tampierová

* 1940

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Sudeten Germans

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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

Františka Trojáková (Danielová)

Františka Trojáková

* 1933

National minorities, 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, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

Anna Turoňová, 1950s

Anna Turoňová

* 1931

Romania, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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