Sudeten Germans | Memory of Nations

As a soldier of the basic military service, 1962

Milan Pavlů

* 1939

National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Writer 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall and 2 more anniversaries

Else Pecher 2014

Else Pecher

* 1923

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Ewald Pechwitz, Pegnitz, 2020

Ewald Pechwitz

* 1938

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Maria Pekařová

Maria Pekařová

* 1938 †︎ 2021

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Žofie Pekařová

Žofie Pekařová

* 1934

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Rudolf Peller as a joung man

Rudolf Peller

* 1926

Emigrant, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Erika Perniková, 18 years old

Erika Perniková

* 1939

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

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Otto Peschka

* 1933

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

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

A historic photo of Jiřina Pešková, early 1950s

Jiřina Pešková

* 1933 †︎ unknown

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions

Věra Peštuková (Pavlíková), graduation photo from 1956

Věra Peštuková

* 1939

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, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

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