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Jaroslav Novák

Jaroslav Novák

* 1921 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Josef Novák

Colonel Josef Novák

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Forced labour during the WW2, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Wehrmacht soldier

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Private First Class (ret.) Leo Novák

* 1924

Veteran of WW2, western front, Wehrmacht soldier

5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Vincenc Novák during his military service in 1952

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Vincenc Novák

* 1929 †︎ 2024

The Partisan, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Veteran of WW2, former Yugoslavia

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Helena Nováková

Helena Nováková

* 1928

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Jiřina Nováková, graduation photography - SVVŠ Botičská, Prague 1963

RNDr. Jiřina Marie Nováková

* 1945

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Holocaust, International Brigadiers and 5 more categories

20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 4 more anniversaries

Ján Novenko at the end of the war, may 1945

Ján Novenko

* 1929 †︎ 2024

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier and 1 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest and 2 more anniversaries

Vlastimil in a contemporary photo

Vlastimil Novobilský

* 1935 †︎ 2021

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Scientist

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Emilie Novoměstská

* 1926

Relatives of important personalities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 3 more anniversaries

Josef Novosad, Belgrade, 1945

Josef Novosad

* 1925 †︎ 2024

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Sokol and 5 more categories

6. 4. - 17. 4. 1941 Dubnová válka (Německý útok na Jugoslávii) , 20 October 1944 - Liberation of Belgrade, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 2 more anniversaries

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