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Kraus in miltary service after the war

František Kraus

* 1925 †︎ 2014

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), A secret police collaborator, Holocaust, The topic of security forces before 1989

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

Tomáš Kraus with his parents at Jarmilina skála

JUDr. Tomáš Kraus

* 1954

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Relatives of important personalities, A secret police collaborator, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Emil Krause in 1946

JUDr. Emil Krause

* 1934 †︎ 2023

Communist official, Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), A secret police collaborator

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

1949, Eliška Krejčová

Eliška Krejčová

* 1927

A secret police collaborator, The Sportsmen

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vaclav Kriz - Prisoner

Václav Kříž

* 1925

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Agent of the western secret services (cold war), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Karel Kuchynka, 1953

Karel Kuchynka

* 1934

Agent of the Soviet secret service, Illegal border crossing, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 15 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria and 1 more anniversaries

Věroslav Kudrna in a photograph from the Ministry of the Interior personnel files (undated)

Věroslav Kudrna

* 1929

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Juliana Lápková v roce 1943.JPG (historic)

Juliána Lápková roz. Pecháčková

* 1935 †︎ 2015

A secret police collaborator, Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

1181-portrait_former.jpg (historic)

Josef Lněnička

* 1930

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), A secret police collaborator, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Underage political prisoners

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Zdeněk Marek

Zdeněk Marek

* 1929

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, Agent of the western secret services (cold war), A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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