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Rudolf Krivanek after his arrival in Czechoslovakia, 1963

Rudolf Křivánek

* 1934

Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Farmer, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Jiřina Křivánková

Jiřina Křivánková

* 1951

Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Sokol, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

1989. From left: Barbara Kroutilová (daughter), Jiřina Kroutilová, Karel Linha (father). On the farm in Temenice.

Jiřina Kroutilová

* 1937

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Emigrant

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Josef Kulich

Captain (ret.) Josef Kulich

* 1924 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Repatriated, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 3 more categories

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 6 more anniversaries

Crossing the border at Dukla - in the foreground a flag bearer Vladimír Kunášek / Source: archive of Václav Širc

Vladimír Kunášek

* 1923 †︎ 2006

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 6 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín and 1 more anniversaries

Jaromír Kutek

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 4 more categories

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, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 6 more anniversaries

Ruth Goldbergerová, 1959

Ruth Landau, roz. Goldbergerová

* 1946

National minorities, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Historian and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Marianna, 19 years old, Prague, photo studio

Marianna Langerová

* 1920 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Holocaust and 5 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Nina Ledvinová, 1945

Nina Ledvinová

* 1924

National minorities, Repatriated, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 5 more anniversaries

Young Tamara

Tamara Lenzová

* 1919

Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 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, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland

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