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Maja Fundová shortly after the war

Maja Fundová

* 1931

National minorities

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad

Miroslava Hájková, 1966

Miroslava Hajek

* 1947

Relatives of important personalities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, A cultural celebrity

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Kateřina Irmanova 2017

Kateřina Irmanovová

* 1947

Relatives of important personalities, Emigrants from Russia

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 1936 - 1938 - Great Terror in the USSR

Accordionist Ludvík Jersák shortly after the war

Ludvík Jersák

* 1936

Czech minority in the former USSR, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Volhynian Czechs

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 3.9.1942 - 2.2.1943 Battle of Stalingrad, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin

Hovhannes Karapetyan with his Wife in Yerevan 1926

Hovhannes Karapetyan

* 1899 †︎ unknown

Armenia

Armenian Genocide

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Matylda Klapalová, roz. Lapková

* 1922 †︎ 2019

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Ivan Kosenko

Ivan Kosenko

* 1941 †︎ 2020

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia

Hana Krejčová

Hana Krejčová

* 1923

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Ukraine

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine and 2 more anniversaries

Leonid Křížek (1965)

Leonid Křížek

* 1947

Anti-communist rebel, Emigrants from Russia, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia

Josef Kulich

Captain (ret.) Josef Kulich

* 1924 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Repatriated, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 3 more categories

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 6 more anniversaries

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