Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Rudolf Kupka

Rudolf Kupka

* 1919 †︎ 2017

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich

Walter Kuratko at the end of WWII

Walter Kuřátko

* 1931

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Czech Minority in Klodzko County (Poland)

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Olga Kurfürstová in 1947

Olga Kurfürstová

* 1927

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 3 more anniversaries

Adolf Kůrka when drafted to the wehrmacht

Adolf Kůrka

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Wehrmacht soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Otakar Kurka

Professor, Ing., CSc. Otakar Kurka

* 1931

Boy Scouts

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Jan Kuruc in the Red Army-1945

Jan Kuruc

* 1926 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Red Army soldier

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Young Ingeborg Kutinová, 1950s

Ingeborg Kutinová

* 1930

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Life along the Iron Curtain

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Marie Kuttelwascherová, 1940s

Marie Kuttelwascherová

* 1921

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia and 1 more anniversaries

Photograph from my youth, undated

Professor, PhDr. Robert Kvaček , CSc.

* 1932 †︎ 2024

Historian, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Scientist, University professor

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Cut out from a family photograph of Andělín Kvapil, 1950s

Andělín Kvapil

* 1931

Spolupracovník Vojenské kontrarozvědky, Germany, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 4 more anniversaries

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