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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

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

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