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Antonín Tropek, 28 April 2025, Luby

Antonín Tropek

* 1938

Hungary, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Repatriated, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Sisters Anna (left) and Jindřiška Pribylová (circa 1942), in Sallaumines, France

Anna Tybitanclová

* 1939

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1940 - The Battle of France, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jan Tyl, 1980s

Jan Tyl

* 1956

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Emigrant, Repatriated

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

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

Marija Adamivna Vartoščuk, 1950, historical photography

Marija Adamivna Vartoščuk

* 1931

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Vlk

Josef Vlk

* 1932

Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Werika Weissová dobové foto.jpg (historic)

Erika Weissová

* 1930 †︎ 2016

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Repatriated, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945)

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Václav Žitný

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Václav Žitný

* 1925 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR and 3 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 3 more anniversaries

Vekhambura Živec, 2021

Eveline Vekhambura Živec

* 1979

Namibia, Repatriated

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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