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Old photo

Alexander Jegorovič Kolesnikov

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Kopeček in his youth

Ing. Jan Kopeček

* 1934 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

After the war injury

ThDr. Daniel Kostsánszky

* 1929 †︎ 2020

Non-Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Josef Krčmář

Colonel (ret.) Josef Krčmář

* 1917

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

Rostislav Kubišta

Rostislav Kubišta

* 1923 †︎ 2014

People helping Jews during WWII, National minorities, The Partisan, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance and 4 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Karel Kuchynka, 1953

Karel Kuchynka

* 1934

Agent of the Soviet secret service, Illegal border crossing, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 15 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria and 1 more anniversaries

Jan Kuruc in the Red Army-1945

Jan Kuruc

* 1926 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Red Army soldier

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Lesný, picture from military ID

Josef Lesný

* 1911 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Holocaust, Red Army soldier, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW, Hungary

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Pater Sergej Magid

* 1947

Red Army soldier, A cultural celebrity

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

František Matějovský

* 1925 †︎ unknown

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, Holocaust, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2 and 9 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. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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