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Witness in military uniform, 1940s

generálmajor Ing. Ignác Syrovátka

* 1914 †︎ 1998

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Déclassé, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 9 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 6 more anniversaries

Ludvík Szingert, 1940

Nadpraporčík v.v. Ludvík Szingert

* 1922 †︎ 2016

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

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

Andrej Sziszák during EYD recording in New York, 2023

Andrej Sziszak

* 1957

United States of America, Hungary, Croatia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 19 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, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 and 22 more anniversaries

Sergi Tabaghua megobrebtan ertad (marcxnidan meore (historic)

Sergi Tabagua

* 1926

Georgia, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

Martin Tadian

Martin Tadian

* 1903 †︎ 1991

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, January 21. 1945 Burning villages Klak

Artistic portrait of Zuzana Tajek Piešová

Zuzana Tajek Piešová

* 1964

Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Avraham Talmi

Avraham Talmi

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, Middle East, National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel), 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster

Vlasta Tarábková as a young woman

Vlasta Tarábková

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

L.Tarmesar wearing uniform of ČSA

Lída Tarmesar

* 1921

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Israel/Palestine, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Marie Tasová (1945)

Marie Tasová

* 1922 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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