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In the first class (5th grade) of the Jesuit school, 1947/45. Václav Wagner third from the left, middle row.

Václav Wagner

* 1936

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ

Vladimír Wais in the 1950s

Vladimír Wais

* 1933 †︎ 2022

Member of an Illegal Church, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Svědci Jehovovi, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

On holiday

Miluše Wajshajtlová

* 1952

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Bibiana Wallnerová

* 1932 †︎ 2014

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin

Dhondup Wangchen, Prague 2022

Dhondup Wangchen དོན་གྲུབ་དབང་ཆེན་

* 1974

Political prisoner from China, Tibet Autonomous Region

Protests against Chinese occupation of Tibet in 2008, XXIX. Summer Olympic Games in Beijing 2008

Tadeusz Wantuła

Mgr. Tadeusz Wantuła

* 1950 †︎ 2024

National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Politician

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Weberová Věra

Věra Weberová

* 1934

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden

Erich Weigel / around 1940

Ing. Erich Weigel

* 1929 †︎ 2022

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of 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

Jarmila Weinbergerová dance class for 1938

MUDr. Jarmila Weinbergerová

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

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, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden and 1 more anniversaries

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Hana Weingarten, roz. Wertheimerová

* 1929 †︎ 2018

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. - 9. března 1944 - Hromadná vražda vězňů tzv. Terezínského rodinného táb

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