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Květoslav Švihla in emigration in the USA

Květoslav Švihla

* 1933

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel

Evžen Švihlík at the age of sixteen.

Evžen Švihlík

* 1930

Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Red Army soldier, Volhynian Czechs, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 5. 7. 1943 - 5. 8. 1943 - Battle of Kursk, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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Antonín Svoboda

* 1938

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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Colonel (ret.) Gustav Svoboda

* 1917 †︎ 2006

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Jan Svoboda

Jan Svoboda

* 1918

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

Jan Svoboda, 1999

Jan Svoboda

* 1977

War veteran after 1989

1992 - 1995 Bosnian War, 22. 4. 1996. - 10. 6. 1999. Kosovská válka , 24. 3. – 10. 6. 1999 - NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

Eighteen-year-old Josef Svoboda in the army

Josef Svoboda

* 1926

Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Farmer

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Fights with Bandera's forces

Josef Svoboda

Josef Svoboda

* 1923

Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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Captain (ret.) Eduard Svobodinský

* 1921

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 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

Sixteen Ernestina Patoprstá

Ernestina Švorcová

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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