Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Andrej (Ondřej) Koba

* 1919 †︎ 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Editha Kobzová (Brosigová) in 1947

Editha Kobzová

* 1934 †︎ 2023

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Graduation photograph of Zdenka Nimmrichterová (Kobzová) from June 22, 1953

Zdenka Kobzová

* 1935

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Alfréd Kocáb

* 1925 †︎ 2018

Representative of the Church, Charter 77 signatory, Forced labour during the WW2, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Hidden people and 4 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria

Jaroslav Kočí

Jaroslav Kočí

* 1950

Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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, 1940 - The Battle of France, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria and 1 more anniversaries

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Vlasta Kočí, roz. Procházková

* 1928

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

Helena Kociánová

Helena Kociánová

* 1933

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Vojtěch Kočka

Vojtěch Kočka

* 1942

A cultural celebrity

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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Emil Kočnár, 1945

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Emil Kočnár

* 1916 †︎ 2015

Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, western front

1940 - The Battle of France, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

The witness in the middle, with sister Růžena (left), Marie Benešová (right) and Stanislav Vaňous (bottom), Litomyšl, 1939

Milada Kocourková

* 1930

Communist official, People helping Jews during WWII, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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