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Rosa with stepmother (with hat)

Rosa Wohlfeld

* 1927 †︎ 2024

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Germany

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Beata Iwona Wojnarowska

* 1963

Poland, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Výjimečný stav v Polsku, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

At the military service

Alfred Wolf

* 1946

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Maria Wolska as a schoolgirl, when her name was Maria Hauschke

Maria Wolska

* 1957

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, German minority in Poland after 1945

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Jiří Wonka with his brother's dog 1977

Jiří Wonka

* 1950

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Charter 77 signatory, National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Brygida Wornowska

* 1946

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Reinhold Wornowski

* 1939

German minority in Poland after 1945

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Matthias Wraneschitz

Matthias Wraneschitz

* 1927

National minorities, Moravian Croats

Rafaela Wróblewska

Rafaela Wróblewska

* 1923

Victim of forced relocation, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Ukraine

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine

Elżbieta Wrzosek

Elżbieta Wrzosek

* 1930

Poland, People helping Jews during WWII, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956

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