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Stanislav Šmic in 2017

Stanislav Šmic

* 1927 †︎ 2023

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

Věra Smilková

* 1932 †︎ 2026

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jaroslav Šmitmajer year 2008

Jaroslav Šmitmajer

* 1920 †︎ 2010

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden

Miroslav Šmoldas

colonel general Miroslav Šmoldas

* 1917 †︎ 2003

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

Jan Smolík

Jan Smolík

* 1942

The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, The Sportsmen

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Smolka Čestmír

Colonel Čestmír Smolka

* 1924 †︎ 2018

Forced labour during the WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Ludvík Smolka at the air defence in Gliwice, 1943

Ludvík Smolka

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Wehrmacht soldier

Emil Šneberg (c) Lukáš Žentel 2013

Colonel (ret.) Emil Šneberg

* 1931 †︎ 2025

Participant in antifascist resistance

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Contemporary portrait of Vlasta, Třebíč 1945

Vlasta Šnelková

* 1930 †︎ 2020

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

1. - 2. 7. 1917 - the battle at Zborova, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR

Period photograph of Ladislav Snídal, 1990s

Colonel (ret.) Ladislav Snídal

* 1914 †︎ 2001

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Veteran of WW2, western front

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 6. 4. - 17. 4. 1941 Dubnová válka (Německý útok na Jugoslávii)

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