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Drahuše Stříhavková (nee Stehlíková), 1949

Drahuše Stříhavková

* 1930 †︎ 2025

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 5 more anniversaries

Student of army band (1943)

Vladimír Strmeň

* 1928

The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Strnad in 2017

Jan Strnad

* 1931 †︎ unknown

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

Alena Strnadová

MUDr. Alena Strnadová

* 1933

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Benes_Cholmondeley_leto_1940.jpg (historic)

Colonel Václav Strupek

* 1918

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

1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka

Daniel Struž

Ing. Colonel Daniel Struž MBA

* 1968

War veteran after 1989

22. 4. 1996. - 10. 6. 1999. Kosovská válka , 1992 - 1995 Bosnian War

Lubomír Studený in 2022

Lubomír Studený

* 1927

Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Red Army soldier

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, The liberation of the city of Wiena, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák and 1 more anniversaries

Markéta Suchá in Malostranské square in Prague

Markéta Suchá

* 1953

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Karel Suchan

Karel Suchan

* 1917

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Jan Suchánek took part in a running competition organized by the Ostašov Foundry (1976)

Ing. Jan Suchánek

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks and 1 more anniversaries

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