Between the Two Wars 1918–1939 | Memory of Nations

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Editha Wurstová in 1948

Editha Krejčová

* 1930 †︎ 2022

National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Hana Krejčová

Hana Krejčová

* 1923

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Ukraine

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine and 2 more anniversaries

Waltraud Kriegisch in March 2012

Waltraud Kriegisch

* 1927 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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

Marie Krieglerová (Přerovská)

Marie Krieglerová

* 1925

Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Relative of a political prisoner

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Pplk.v.v. Pavel Kristl

* 1929

Member of Orel, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising and 1 more anniversaries

M.D. Karel Kříž

* 1926

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich

Růžena Křížková in 1943

Růžena Křížková

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Life along the Iron Curtain, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Helena Křížová (Hackenberg) in Jihlava

Helena Křížová

* 1928 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Memory of vanished settlements

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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

Jaroslav Krob

Jaroslav Krob

* 1910 †︎ 2006

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, French Foreign Legion, Israel/Palestine

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord

Doc. MUDr. Michal Kroó

* 1923 †︎ 2016

National minorities, Holocaust, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Hidden people, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW and 3 more categories

29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

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