Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Czernin Theobald

Theobald Czernin

* 1936 †︎ 2015

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Déclassé

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Václav Daněk, temporary portrait

Václav Daněk

* 1929 †︎ 2025

Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers and 4 more anniversaries

Zdeněk Daniel

* 1929

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Holocaust, Memory of vanished settlements

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Rudolf Daňo in 2021

Rudolf Daňo

* 1923

The Partisan, Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 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

Azriel Dansky before leaving for Israel, Banská Bystrica, February 1949

Azriel (Peter) Dansky

* 1937

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Photography from 1960

Ervín Arie David

* 1936

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Hidden people

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

The wedding of Miroslav David and Vlastimila Vlčková / 1948

Miroslav David

* 1924 †︎ 2023

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Ladislav Davidovič, 24 years old

Ladislav Davidovič

* 1936

Underage political prisoners, Victim of forced relocation, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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 and 6 more anniversaries

Jindřiška Deáková née Wilková before her marriage in 1953

Jindřiška Deáková

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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

Jan Demčík

Jan Demčík

* 1913 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR

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