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Stanislav Hlučka in 1940

Stanislav Hlučka

* 1919 †︎ 2008

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války and 12 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain and 9 more anniversaries

Hlupík Otto 2018

Otto Hlupík

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Participant in the Slovak national uprising

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Stanislav Hnělička

Stanislav Hnělička

* 1922 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Vladimír Hnetecký, 31.10.2012

Captain (ret.) Vladimír Hnetecký

* 1927 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2, A warder in a communist prison, National minorities and 5 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 2 more anniversaries

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Zdeněk Hnízdo

* 1931 †︎ 2020

Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Stanislav Hochman

Stanislav Hochman

* 1925

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR)

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jitka Hofmanová with mother Josefa and grandmother Bohumila

Jitka Hochmanová

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Pavel Höchsmann wearing the uniform of the Auxiliary Technical Batallions.

Pavel Höchsmann

* 1927

People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Royal Air Force, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 6 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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Colonel Jiří Hofman

* 1923 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Josef Hofmann in the Wehrmacht, 1944

Private (ret.) Josef Hofmann

* 1926 †︎ 2011

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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