Stories of the 20th century

Post Bellum SK

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

Bibiana Wallnerová

* 1932 †︎ 2014

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin

Jozef as a young member of the kibbutz

Jozef Weiss

* 1933 †︎ 2024

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 24.9.1945 - Pogrom in Topoľčany, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 3 more anniversaries

Period photography of Mária Weissová.

Mária Weissová rod. Kovalová

* 1933

Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Alica Weisfeiler - photo from recording.

Alica Weiszfeiler

* 1933

Emigrant, Holocaust, National minorities, Israel/Palestine, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

Elvíra Weiszová

Elvíra Weiszová

* 1915 †︎ 2021

Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Witness - Ladislav Welward

Ladislav Welward

* 1936

Holocaust, Hidden people, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Current photograph of Peter Werner from the recording, number one.

Peter Werner

* 1948

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Witness Beata Zázrivcová during recording her life story

Beata Westrych Zázrivcová

* 1960

Poland, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

IMG_6756.JPG (historic)

Tereza Wiesnerová

* 1928

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Oskar Winkler

Ing. Oskar Winkler

* 1941

Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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