Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Jan Mastny during the conscription for military service

Jan Mastný

* 1925 †︎ 2025

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Fred Matal around 1948

Fred Matal

* 1928 †︎ 2025

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Alois Matěj in his youth

Alois Matěj

* 1924

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

As a young woman, c. 1947

Anna Matějková

* 1925

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Radoslav Mather

Radoslav Mather

* 1928

Forced labour during the WW2, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Sokol, 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, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

During WWII in Baběnice by Prague

Ing. Milan Mátl

* 1935

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé and 2 more categories

The liberation of the city of Wiena, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Radomír Matulík

Radomír Matulík

* 1924 †︎ 2023

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Karel Matuška / 1957

Karel Matuška

* 1937

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Witness Marián Matyáš during eyd recording

Marián Matyáš

* 1951

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

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Olga Mauleová

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, The Partisan, Czech minority in the former USSR, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války and 4 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

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