Before the Fall of Iron Curtain 1946–1949 | Memory of Nations

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Eva Ehrlichová, after WWII

Eva Adorian

* 1926

Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, People helping Jews during WWII and 2 more categories

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 8. - 9. března 1944 - Hromadná vražda vězňů tzv. Terezínského rodinného táb

Karl Affenzeller during childhood

Karl Affenzeller

* 1950

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Austria

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

George Agathonikiadis, a portrait

George Agathonikiadis

* 1947

Greece, National minorities, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia, A cultural celebrity

1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Stephen Akerman

Stephen Akerman

* 1919 †︎ unknown

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

witness Helena Aková as a young girl

Helena Aková

* 1932 †︎ 2023

Holocaust, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Walter Vincenc Albert on a contemporary photograph

Walter Vincenc Albert

* 1926

People helping Jews during WWII, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

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

Zdeněk Albert

Zdeněk Albert

* 1927

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced labour during the WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 3 more anniversaries

Portrait photo of Anita taken in Klingenthal at the beginning of 1950s

Anita Alblová

* 1936

Emigrant, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Věra Albrechtová nee Havlová

Věra Albrechtová

* 1932

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 7 more anniversaries

Madeleine Albright in 1947

Madeleine Albright

* 1937 †︎ 2022

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

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