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Irma Garlíková, graduation, 1953

Irma Garlíková

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Participant in antifascist resistance, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

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Zuzana Gazdaricová rod. Šavrtková

* 1932

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

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Stanislav Gazdík

* 1970

French Foreign Legion, War veteran after 1989

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 24. 3. – 10. 6. 1999 - NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

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Petr Gibian

* 1922 †︎ 2008

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

Jozef Giertl

Jozef Giertl

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, The Partisan, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR

Gihoul Louis, WWII

Louis Gihoul

* 1923 †︎ 2022

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Belgium

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Jiřina Gímešová, 18 years old

Mgr. Jiřina Gímešová

* 1932 †︎ 2023

French Foreign Legion, Historian, Communist official, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation and 6 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 7 more anniversaries

Šmuel Givoni

Šmuel Givoni

* 1923 †︎ 2023

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoners in the labour camps in Nováky, Sereď and Vyhne in Slovakia

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Lubomír Gižický

Lubomír Gižický

* 1933

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, Underage political prisoners

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Rostislav Glajch

* 1925

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

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