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František Lederer, a portrait

František Lederer

* 1930 †︎ 2018

Holocaust, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz

Lucie Ledererová, Prague, 2024

Lucie Ledererová

* 1941

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Nina Ledvinová, 1945

Nina Ledvinová

* 1924

National minorities, Repatriated, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 5 more anniversaries

Lefkovits Ivan

Ivan Lefkovits

* 1937

Emigrant, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial

Zuzana Lejsková in the year 2021

Zuzana Lejsková

* 1954

A warder in a communist prison, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Aurel Lesák, 1950s

Aurel Lesák

* 1930

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

René Levínský

Ing. René Levínský Ph.D.

* 1970

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Vladimír Líbal

* 1954

Charter 77 signatory, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Anti-communist rebel

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Hans Adam II., 2018

Hans Adam II. Liechtenstein

* 1945

Liechtenstein, Relatives of important personalities, Nobility, A cultural celebrity

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Pavla Líhařová at the Škoda Rally, 1974

Pavla Líhařová

* 1946

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

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