Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Vladimír Bouz

First Lieutenant (ret.) Vladimír Bouz

* 1924 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs and 4 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

Vladimír Brabec in 1950s

Vladimír Brabec

* 1924 †︎ 2023

Representative of the Church, Illegal border crossing, Non-Catholic clerical, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Journalist and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 3 more anniversaries

Helena Brabencová (en)

Helena Brabencová

* 1927

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Petr Brandeiský as a student in Leningrad, 1953

Petr Brandeiský

* 1930 †︎ 2022

Holocaust, National minorities, University professor

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Franz Braun during his military service

Franz Braun

* 1931

Germany, National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Juraj Braun

* 1952

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945

Zuzana Brejcha

Zuzana Brejcha

* 1953

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Graduation photo, 1942

Zdenka Brejníková

* 1923

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

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 and 1 more anniversaries

Karel Brhel (1946)

Karel Brhel

* 1922 †︎ 2006

Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Richard Brhlík

Richard Brhlík

* 1938

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Israel/Palestine and 3 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 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

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