Ladislav Jaworek
* 1946
… a part of Petrovice near Karviná. He grew up in a Catholic family in Karviná-Nové Město. His father … as a coker at the coke battery in Karviná. He trained as a locksmith …
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Josef Pukowiec
* 1929
… miners' colony in Sovinec in the Karviná mining area. His father … a mining machinery fitter in the Karviná region. In winter 1945 he … in his friends' homes in the Karviná region. For his entire …
Jindřich Kubienka
* 1942
… was born on 31 May 1942 in Karviná. His mother was of German … this. In January 1970, a judge in Karviná punished him with a … a job at the Český Těšín farm in Karviná. In November 1989 he …
Ing. Josef Tomica
* 1925 †︎ 2017
… was born December 2, 1925 in Karviná in the Těšín region. The … began working in the ironworks in Karviná, where he subsequently did … the secondary technical school in Karviná, and he thus completed his …
Renata Plášková
* 1935
… was born on 11 December 1935 in Karviná. After Nazi Germany … and then was employed in the Karviná cultural centre until her … the party. In 2022 she lived in Karviná. …
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The August invasion in Karviná
(audio)… "I worked on the tracks in Karviná. In the morning I was on my way to work and … Nobody talked about anything. Then we got out in Karviná and music was playing from the speakers. And I … speeding onwards. And at the station we had a sign saying Karviná-město. That was painted over and instead there was …
The accident at the Karviná coal mine in 1947
(video)… fell apart. I was in the wall and I was throwing. I was in Karviná and there were four-meter layers. Not in Ostrava, … forty centimeters in Ostrava, I was not there, but I was in Karviná. And there it fell. And there was also one part-time … The accident at the Karviná coal mine in 1947 …
Occupation in 1968 in Karviná
(audio)… our block of flats. We lived just at the Polish border in Karvina and there was no flight zone at all, there were no … Occupation in 1968 in Karviná …
1953 – Filling the Mines in Karviná
(audio)… “In Karviná I was transferred to the disciplinary unit and our … 1953 – Filling the Mines in Karviná …
Accident at the shaft called Mír in Karvina in PTP
(video)… trained as a pitman, Vasrpolák he was, who found a woman in Karviná and did not care much about the military service. … Accident at the shaft called Mír in Karvina in PTP …
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