Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Witness Jozef Istenes during eyd recording in 2023

Ing. arch. Jozef Istenes

* 1953

Hungary, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 5 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 1 more anniversaries

Božena Koutná (Ivanová), 1945

Božena Ivanová

* 1927 †︎ 2023

Czech minority in the former USSR, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Veteran of WW2, eastern front

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 1941, August 27-28 - Mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Michal Izaj in 1945

Michal Izaj

* 1921 †︎ 2013

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

3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Pavel Jacko in 1946

Pavel Jacko

* 1923 †︎ 2014

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

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov

Jarmila Jägerová

Jarmila Jägerová

* 1923 †︎ 2014

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, The Partisan, Sudeten Germans

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

Stanislava Jägerová, a portrait

Stanislava Jägerová

* 1938

A communist prosecutor, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Jagr in the Memory of the Nation studio, November 2022

Jaroslav Jágr

* 1932

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Radivoj, student of theology, Leningrad 1949

Radivoj Arcibiskup Simeon Jakovljevič

* 1926 †︎ 2024

Representative of the Church, A cultural celebrity, Relative of a political prisoner

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Jan Jakubec

Lieutenant (ret.) Jan Jakubec

* 1915 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk and 1 more anniversaries

Marie Jakubíčková, 1952

Marie Jakubíčková

* 1932

Member of Orel, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2 and 1 more categories

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 3 more anniversaries

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