Sudeten Germans | Memory of Nations

Josefa Šánová, 1942

Josefa Šánová

* 1922

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Marie Satrapová's wedding photo, 1960

Marie Satrapová

* 1942

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Heinz Sattler, Plesná 2022

Heinz Sattler

* 1933

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Bedrich with his wife

Bedřich Schalek

* 1913

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Charlotte Scharfová (sitting second from the bottom right) in a primary school in her native Albrechtice, turn of the 1940s and 1950s

Charlotte Scharfová

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, 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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Brunhilde Scheiner in a period photograph (circa 1958)

Brunhilda Scheinerová

* 1939

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

contemporary photo of Milica Schejbalová

Milica Schejbalová

* 1930

Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Déclassé

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Josef Schicho (1932)

Josef Schicho

* 1930

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Victim of forced relocation, Writer and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria and 1 more anniversaries

Georg Schiedeck

Georg Schiedeck

* 1945

Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Adalbert Schiller in 2019

Adalbert Schiller

* 1942

Sudeten Germans

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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