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Josef Pojman

* 1922 †︎ unknown

People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Milan Pokoradi during eyd recording

Milan Pokoradi

* 1948

Hungary, Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII and 13 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 17 more anniversaries

Old period photograph of Erna Pokorná, née Lamplová

Erna Pokorná

* 1931

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vojtěch Pokorný, 1991

Mgr. Vojtěch Pokorný

* 1971

Dissident, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Charter 77 signatory

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Pokrupa Jaroslav

Jaroslav Pokrupa

* 1926 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Jiří Poláček

Jiří Poláček

* 1913 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster

Ludmila Poláchová with her husband Lubomir, 1984

Ludmila Poláchová

* 1930

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Arnošt Polák

Colonel Arnošt Polák

* 1923 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Holocaust, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR

Bedřich Polák

Bedřich Polák

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Colonel (ret.) Lukáš Polanský

* 1925

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

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