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Zdeněk Frištenský around 1948

Zdeněk Frištenský

* 1926

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relatives of important personalities, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Orchestra PKO guitar

Professor Ivan Frollo

* 1939

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist, University professor, Life along the Iron Curtain

Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

In the castle guard

Captain (ret.) Josef Fronc

* 1920 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vladimír Fros

* 1924 †︎ 2007

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Alica Frühwaldová

* 1947

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Růžena Fučíková

Růžena Fučíková

* 1932

Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Young Milan Gabčan

Milan Gabčan

* 1932 †︎ 2021

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

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Imrich Gablech

Imrich Gablech

* 1915 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Royal Air Force, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Koloman Gajan in 1938

Koloman Gajan

* 1918 †︎ 2011

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Antonín Gajda

* 1925 †︎ unknown

Forced labour during the WW2, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 2 more anniversaries

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