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Hildegard Sedlářová (Luxová) in 1949

Hildegarda Sedlářová

* 1926

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, People helping Jews during WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Hermann Sehr

Hermann Sehr

* 1938

Sudeten Germans

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

Franz Seidl, Olomouc, 2022

Franz Seidl

* 1934

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Seifert Ewald

Ewald Seifert

* 1937

Sudeten Germans

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

In Kezmarok, 25th March 1945

Mikuláš Šereťuk

* 1916 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 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

František Severa in his childhood

František Severa

* 1947

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

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

Johanna Sieredzká (around 1948)

Johanna Sieredzká

* 1928 †︎ 2018

National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 1 more anniversaries

Contemporary photograph by Jiří Šigut taken around the year 2000

Jiří Šigut

* 1960

Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marie Šimánková, 1953

Marie Šimánková

* 1936

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

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

Otokar Simm with his parents Max and Emily in the Peace celebration near Jablonec dam in 1957

Otokar Simm

* 1946

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

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

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