Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Jan Jurášek in 2020

Jan Jurášek

* 1936

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

Mária Jurčová

* 1934

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Rudolf Jurečka, graduation, Valasske Mezirici 1944

Rudolf Jurečka

* 1924 †︎ 2021

Forced labour during the WW2, A cultural celebrity

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Portrét, 1. polovina 50. let

Gertruda Jurečková

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Jurka in his youth

Jiří Jurka

* 1931

A cultural celebrity, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation and 1 more anniversaries

Zdenka Jurková in the year 2021

Zdenka Jurková

* 1933

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

František Jursa

František Jursa

* 1933

The Sportsmen

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, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 4 more anniversaries

Zuzana Justman before the war

Zuzana Justman

* 1931

United States of America, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial

Božena Jůvová in 1948

Božena Jůvová

* 1923 †︎ 2025

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 3 more anniversaries

Witness at the workshop, saxophones, 60s-70s, Herbert Chlupsa in the background

Vladislav Kabíček

* 1932

Czech community in the US, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

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