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Václav Kuchynka 1945

Václav Kuchynka

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, Holocaust, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 1 more anniversaries

Václav Kulhánek during his compulsory military service in PTP, which he finished after more then three years on 31th December 1953

Monsignor Václav Kulhánek

* 1930 †︎ 2021

Catholic clerical, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Jana Kulhánková retro foto

Jana Kulhánková

* 1939

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Jitka Kulhánková as an employee of the Office Machines company

Mgr. Jitka Kulhánková

* 1942

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans), 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Věra Kulhavá, recording for Memory of Nations, Jihlava, September 2024

Věra Kulhavá

* 1936

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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Rudolf Kulka in music club clothes, 1970

Rudolf Kulka

* 1944

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Daniel Kumermann, 2022

Daniel Kumermann

* 1951

Diplomat, Dissident, Journalist, Déclassé, Anti-communist rebel and 3 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Milan Kunc after graduation in 1963

Milan Kunc

* 1944

Italy, Germany, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 5 more anniversaries

Vladimír Kunc in August 2019

Vladimír Kunc

* 1955

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Dušan Kunčík during his studies at the military high school in Opava, 1975

Ing., Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Dušan Kunčík

* 1959

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, War veteran after 1989

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1992 - 1995 Bosnian War

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