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Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Zirnzák

* 1928 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Emigrant, National minorities, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vladislav Žitňák in his youth

Vladislav Žitňák

* 1932 †︎ unknown

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

Václav Žitný

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Václav Žitný

* 1925 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR and 3 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 3 more anniversaries

František Živěla

Major František Živěla

* 1914 †︎ 2005

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1940 - The Battle of France

Karel Žižka around 1968

Karel Žižka

* 1950

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Blanka Zmeková as a single woman

Blanka Zmeková

* 1936

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Karel Zmija 3

Karel Zmija

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, western front, Wehrmacht soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Hynek Zmítko, 1944

Hynek Zmítko

* 1916 †︎ 2004

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign and 1 more anniversaries

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Jaruška Žolčáková

* 1929

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Ladislav Zošák - photo from criminal military service (1951)

Ladislav Zošák

* 1929

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Victim of forced relocation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State and 2 more anniversaries

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