Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Michal Demjan

Michal Demjan

* 1921 †︎ 2019

A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Political prisoner in WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

PhDr. Ondrej Demo CSc.

* 1927 †︎ 2020

Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Alois Denemarek

* 1917 †︎ 2013

Participant in antifascist resistance, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Hidden people

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Otto Deneš

Otto Deneš

* 1918 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Ondřej Derbak 1938

Ondřej Derbák

* 1914 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Mrs. Děrdová 1940s

Zdeňka Děrdová

* 1926 †︎ 2023

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

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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Vasil Derďuk

* 1922 †︎ 2018

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 6 more anniversaries

Eva Derman

* 1947

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Judy Diamantová

* 1932

Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Hidden people

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Witness Zuzana Diamantová, 2025

Zuzana Diamantová

* 1938

Emigrant, Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

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