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Vasilia Vorobčuková

* 1922 †︎ 2019

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Participant in antifascist resistance, Ukrainians in the GULAG, 1944 - 1990 and 2 more categories

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Moscow, shortly after his arrival from Czechoslovakia

Eduard Arkaďjevič Vorobjov

* 1938

Soldier of the Soviet Army, Russia

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1979 - 1989 - Sovětská invaze do Afghánistánu, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Bohumír Vosáhlo in 2017

Bohumír Vosáhlo

* 1943

Political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel

Hana Vosečková (en)

Hana Vosečková

* 1954

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Viliam Voštinář

Staff Sergeant Viliam Voštinář

* 1920 †︎ 2013

The Partisan

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Mrs Vostova in 1945

Alena Voštová

* 1939

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Participant in antifascist resistance, The Children of Svatobořice

24. 10. 1942 - poprava 261 československých odbojářů v KT Mauthausen, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

A photograph taken during the WWII, likely in the Croatian Slavonia, shows a group of men from the 1st independent Czechoslovak brigade 'Jan Žižka of Trocnov' which fought side by side with the Tito's resistance army

Miroslav Vostřel

* 1921

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, former Yugoslavia

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Vozáb, 1973

Josef Vozáb

* 1955

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Charter 77 signatory, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Anti-communist rebel

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Jana Vozárová single, still named Šestáková

Jana Vozárová

* 1942

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Pavel Vranský - period photo

Major Pavel Vranský

* 1921 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign

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