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In youth

Ľubomír Boďa

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Stanislav Bodlák

Stanislav Bodlák

* 1924 †︎ 2017

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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Mgr. Ljubica Bodláková, roz. Axmanová

* 1934

Political prisoner in WW2, Representative of the Church, Forced labour during the WW2, Non-Catholic clerical, Sokol

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

The black baron Jiří Boháč in the Technical auxiliary battalion in 1953

Ing. Jiří Boháč

* 1932 †︎ 2024

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Prison photograph - 1944

Jiří Boháč

* 1920

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

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Viktor Boháč

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

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Lieutenant Colonel Jan Bohdan

* 1921 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Bojarová, rozená Hůlková Olga

Olga Bojarová, rozená Hůlková

* 1925

A cultural celebrity, Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, Relative of a political prisoner

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 27. – 29. 6. 1967 - The 4th Congress of Czech Writers, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Bernard Bokor in a PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) uniform

Bernard Bokor

* 1924 †︎ 2013

Representative of the Church, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Catholic clerical

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle” and 2 more anniversaries

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Ruth Bondyová

* 1923 †︎ 2017

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine and 3 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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