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Emanuel Kop

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Emanuel Kop

* 1913

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Hidden people

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria

A picture taken during the interview for the Scout century project

Jaroslav Kopáček

* 1929 †︎ 2019

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Kopáček in 1947

Professor, Ing., CSc. Jaroslav Kopáček

* 1931

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

2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Jan Kopeček in his youth

Ing. Jan Kopeček

* 1934 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Eva Kopecká

Eva Kopecká

* 1922 †︎ 2019

Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Helena Kopecká in 2022

RNDr., CSc. Helena Kopecká

* 1931 †︎ 2022

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czech community in the US, Journalist, Relatives of important personalities and 5 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin and 3 more anniversaries

Ruth Kopeckova 2017

Ruth Kopečková

* 1923 †︎ 2022

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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Jiří Kopinec

* 1921 †︎ 2014

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov and 1 more anniversaries

Jiřina Kopoldová

Captain (ret.) Jiřina Kopoldová

* 1923 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Margarete Koppe, Pegnitz, 2020

Margarete Koppe

* 1928 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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