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Jaroslav Pánek, circa 1937

Jaroslav Pánek

* 1926 †︎ 2025

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Josef Pánek during recording for Memory of Nations, 2023

Josef Pánek

* 1928

Forced labour during the WW2, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 5 more anniversaries

Period photo of the witness

Ing. Miloš Panýr

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Forced labour during the WW2, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Bernard Papánek in the Czechoslovak armed forces uniform (1942)

Bernard Papánek

* 1920 †︎ 2021

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, National minorities, Israel/Palestine and 2 more categories

12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Jiří Parduba, (1923-2017)

Jiří Parduba

* 1923 †︎ 2017

Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 5 more anniversaries

P. Parkán young

Pavel Parkán

* 1932

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Representative of the Church, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Non-Catholic clerical

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Parlesák in the 1950s

Ing. Josef Parlesák

* 1936

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

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Barbora Páslerová

* 1930

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

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Karel Paták

* 1931 †︎ 2014

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Graduation photographs by Jaroslav Pátek, Pardubice, 1956

Mgr. Jaroslav Pátek

* 1938 †︎ 2024

Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Boy Scouts

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

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