Sudeten Germans | Memory of Nations

Erna Demuth in 1943

Erna Munzarová

* 1928

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Hermina Musilová (1950)

Hermina Musilová

* 1928

National minorities, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Repatriated and 5 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

contemporary photo from 1947

Dr. Walter Rochus Nachtigall

* 1931

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

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

The witness in the front left with her parents and siblings, Jezová, 1967

Marie Nedvědová

* 1960

Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

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, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

František Nejedlý

František Nejedlý

* 1931

National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Otakar Němec, right after the WWII

Otakar Němec

* 1935

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Sudeten Germans, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich

Alfred Neudörfer in the Memory of Nation studio

Alfred Neudörfer

* 1947

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

As a sixteen year old

Ing. Klement Neugebauer

* 1937

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

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

Dieter Neumann, latter 1940s

Dieter Neumann

* 1944 †︎ 2025

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, Holocaust, National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans and 3 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Otto Neumann

Otto Neumann

* 1930 †︎ 2018

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Sudeten Germans, Member of an Illegal Church

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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