Sudeten Germans

National Minorities

Helma Koubová, married name Růžičková, 1948

Helma Růžičková

* 1933

People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), The relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal 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

Marie Saettlerová

Marie Saettlerová

* 1933

Sudeten Germans, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

Marie Šafandová in 2023

Mgr. Marie Šafandová

* 1943

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 3 more anniversaries

Marie Tauerová (1944)

Marianne Šafaříková

* 1926 †︎ 2017

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Memory of vanished settlements, Life along the Iron Curtain

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories

Josef, Vimperk, 1937

Josef Sager

* 1932

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

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

The witness with her mother, circa 1941-42

Ilsa Sanetrníková

* 1937

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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

Josefa Šánová, 1942

Josefa Šánová

* 1922

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, The 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 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Heinz Sattler, Plesná 2022

Heinz Sattler

* 1933

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal 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

The relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

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