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Colonel Bedřich Seliger

* 1920 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, National minorities, Holocaust

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 3 more anniversaries

Wedding photograph 1977

MUDr. Alena Sellnerová

* 1952

Czech minority in the former USSR, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 3 more categories

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1940 Katyn massacre, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 5 more anniversaries

Demeter Senický, Levoča 1945

Demeter Senický

* 1917 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov and 2 more anniversaries

Karel Šerák

Colonel Karel Šerák

* 1923 †︎ 2016

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, National minorities, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Church village choir of Liashky village, Yaroslavl district. In the center - the choir conductor Volodymyr Shumskyi (Liashky village, 1929)

Volodymyr Sereda Володимир Середа

* 1934

Ukraine, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR

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

Zdeněk Serinek with his grandmother Marie (Josef Serinek smoking a pipe on the very right).

Zdeněk Serinek

* 1967

The Partisan, Relative of a political prisoner, Gypsies / Roma, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Portrait of Markéta Šestáková taken by a neighbouring photographer in 28th October Street in České Budějovice, 1981

Markéta Šestáková

* 1952

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Bohdan Ševčuk

Bohdan Ševčuk

* 1950

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Repatriated and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, Ukraine in 1986–1991, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

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

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