Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Josef Bialas, Wehrmacht military book, Breslau (Wroclaw), January 1945

Josef Bialas

* 1927 †︎ 2025

Wehrmacht soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany

Alois Bílek, 1956

Ing. Alois Bílek

* 1934

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 6 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Bílek 1950

Jaroslav Bílek

* 1933 †︎ 2018

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Jaromir Bilík as an employee "Královopolské strojírny"

Jaromír Bilík

* 1918 †︎ 2020

Déclassé, Sokol, University professor

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Vladimír Bílík

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 9 more anniversaries

The witness is painting Ještěd, around 1949

Otakar Binar

* 1931 †︎ 2024

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé, Boy Scouts, Sudeten Germans, Art and censorship and 3 more categories

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Michal Bindzar, Marianske Lazne, March 2007

Michal Bindzar

* 1922 †︎ 2020

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Arnošt Binter, 1970s

Mgr. Arnošt Binter

* 1928

Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Ernst Birke at the recording in 2025

Ernst Birke

* 1935

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

61385-photo.jpg (historic)

MUDr. Anna Bittmanová

* 1929 †︎ 2011

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

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