Sudeten Germans

National Minorities

Slavomil Braun

Slavomil Braun

* 1935 †︎ 2024

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

Barbara Edith Breindl

Barbara Edith Breindl

* 1939

Sudeten Germans

Erika Brinkmann in 1949

Erika Brinkmannová

* 1940

National minorities, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Sudeten Germans

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Hedvika Brixová v roce 2017

Hedvika Brixová

* 1928 †︎ 2018

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Bruno Brych in the second half of 1950s

Bruno Brych

* 1938

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Alžběta Bürgerová, 1960

Alžběta Bürgerová

* 1929

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat

Vladimír Buryan in 2016

Vladimír Buryan

* 1929 †︎ 2017

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Sudeten Germans

Ingeborg Cäsarová (1951)

Ingeborg Cäsarová

* 1936

Sudeten Germans, Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova

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

Karolina as a child

Karolina Čermáková

* 1934

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Gustav Černý after the war as 25 years old

Gustav Černý

* 1936

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé, Memory of vanished settlements, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising and 10 more anniversaries

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