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MUDr. Josef Hercz

Brigadier General (ret.) Josef Hercz

* 1917 †︎ 2010

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

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Jan Herka

* 1932 †︎ unknown

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts

The lieutenant colonel Jinřich Heřkovič

Jindřich Heřkovič

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 9 more anniversaries

Ludmila Hermanová - 1956

Ludmila Hermanová

* 1936

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

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Vladislav Herzán

* 1932

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sokol

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Irena Hesová in her 15, how her mother remembered her

Irena Hešová

* 1926 †︎ 2023

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, The Children of Svatobořice, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Hezký

Ing. Jiří Hezký

* 1928 †︎ 2020

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Josef Hiadlovský, 1945

Nadpraporčík v.v. Josef Hiadlovský

* 1927 †︎ unknown

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, The Partisan

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Ondrej Hiadlovský in slovak army, year 1943

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Ondrej Hiadlovský

* 1922 †︎ 2020

The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

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Major (ret.) Sigmund Hladík

* 1927 †︎ 2021

Holocaust, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 1 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

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