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Vězeňské foto - Plocek Karel

Karel Plocek

* 1930 †︎ 2009

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Private Václav Plos

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Jan Plovajko after war

Jan Plovajko

* 1922 †︎ 2020

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

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Josef Pochman

* 1921

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Josef Podběra

* 1921

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, The Partisan

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Jaroslav Podlipný in scout dress, 1938

Dr. Jaroslav Podlipný

* 1922 †︎ unknown

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2 and 1 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Barbara Podoski 2008

Barbara Podoski

* 1914 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, western front

Jan Podstatzky Lichtenstein as a young man, 1960

Hrabě Jan Podstatzky-Lichtenstein

* 1937

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities, 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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Pogosyan Mesrov

Lieutenant (ret.) Mesrov Pogosyan

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier, Soldier of the Soviet Army

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Jan Pohoriliak

Jan Pohoriliak

* 1918

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov and 3 more anniversaries

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