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Krista Podaná, 1956

Krista Podaná

* 1940 †︎ 2024

National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Taťjana Podhajská

Taťjana Podhajská, roz. Kogramš

* 1926

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Belarus

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Podivínský during the recording for Memory of Nations, Olomouc, 31 May 2022

MUDr. Jiří Podivínský

* 1938

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Sokol, National minorities

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Zbigniew Podleśny in 1966 as twentyseven years old

Zbigniew Marian Podleśny

* 1939

National minorities, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Slovak-Polish relations in years 1918 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Marie Pohlová, 2025

Marie Pohlová

* 1956

Czech Minority in Klodzko County (Poland)

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

Zdeňka Pohlová with her older brother after the war

Zdeňka Pohlová

* 1940

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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Werner Pohnitzer

* 1941

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

MUDr. Dagmar Pohunková

* 1929

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, A cultural celebrity

12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 4 more anniversaries

J. Pojer

Josef Pojer

* 1924

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Josef Pojman

* 1922 †︎ unknown

People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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