Stories of the 20th century

Post Bellum SK

Documentation project of Post Bellum SK that was funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme.

Mikuláš Škrek

* 1918

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Valéria Slamová at young age

Valéria Slamová (Propstein)

* 1928

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , Death marches 1944-1945

Dominik Slobodník

Dominik Slobodník

* 1932

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 16.2.1945 - burning down of the Slovak village Priechod

Jan Sovencak before emigration

Ján Slovenčák

* 1955

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Life along the Iron Curtain, Illegal border crossing

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Pavel Slúka

* 1924 †︎ unknown

The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

sr. Bonaventúra Terézia Šmídová - 70´s

Bonaventúra Terézia Šmídová

* 1954

Dissident, Friars, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Member of an Illegal Church, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava

Witness Katica Smojver in 2022

Katica Smojver

* 1953

Marcela Smolková

* 1932

National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness at the age of 8

Jozef Šnirc

* 1934

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Ladislav Snopko

Ladislav Snopko

* 1949

Environmentalist, Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity and 1 more categories

21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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