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Jan Mertoš

* 1923 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, The Partisan, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Illustrative photograph of women from the ranks of Czechoslovak combat medics

Vasilina Mesárová, rozená Ljachová

* 1922

Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

Marta Hrabinská, photo from investigation file, Plzen, 1952, Security Services Archive

Marta Měšťanová

* 1932

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

Metyš - vězeňské foto.jpg (historic)

Ing. Karel Metyš

* 1932 †︎ 2018

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, Relative of a political prisoner, Underage political prisoners

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš and 2 more anniversaries

Marie Mezerová as a student

Marie Mezerová

* 1932

Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

Vilem Míchal - 1963

Vilém Michal

* 1932

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

Michalička Josef - soldier 1944

Josef Michalička

* 1925 †︎ 2005

Czech minority in the former USSR, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 1 more anniversaries

Richard Michalik in hospital, Prague, 1945

Richard Michalík

* 1926

Wehrmacht soldier

Witness Ján Michalko during eyd recording

MUDr. Ján Michalko

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Sportsmen, Participant in the Slovak national uprising

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Eliška Michalská - 1967

Eliška Michalská

* 1932

Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, 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, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

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