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Second Lieutenant Miroslav Jersák

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Pavlína Jerusalemová, née Epsteinová

Pavla Jerusalemová

* 1921 †︎ 2019

Participant in antifascist resistance, A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Pavel Jež

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, western front

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

At the time of graduation

Mgr. Ing. Marie Jílková

* 1950

Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Jiřina Jiráková

* 1926 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 1 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad and 3 more anniversaries

Věra Jiráková (Hejtmánková) in her youth

Věra Jiráková

* 1935

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

Bedřich Jiránek

Lieutenant (ret.) Bedřich Jiránek

* 1924 †︎ 2015

French Foreign Legion, The Partisan, Veteran of WW2, western front, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia

5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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Zdeňka Jiříčková

* 1920 †︎ unknown

Relative of a political prisoner, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 12. 1945 - Death of Father Antonin Vysloužil

Václav Jirkovský in the year 1945

Captain (ret.) Václav Jirkovský

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, western front, Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, Hidden people

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

In the half of the 90th years - on the trip to Jabkenice

Miroslav Jirounek

* 1955 †︎ 2020

Dissident, Anti-communist rebel, Charter 77 signatory, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial and 4 more anniversaries

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