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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

Ludmila Uhlířová (Stárková)

Ludmila Uhlířová

* 1922 †︎ unknown

Czech minority in the former USSR, People helping Jews during WWII, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 3 more categories

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 7 more anniversaries

Václav Valoušek, shortly after joining the army in 1944

Nadpraporčík v.v. Václav Valoušek

* 1924 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army) and 7 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 7 more anniversaries

Vladimír Vaňous in 2021

Captain (ret.) Vladimír Vaňous

* 1927 †︎ unknown

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, National minorities, The Partisan, Repatriated and 5 more categories

6. 4. - 17. 4. 1941 Dubnová válka (Německý útok na Jugoslávii) , 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

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