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Jiří Kafka as a RAF pilot

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Jiří Pavel Kafka

* 1924

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Drahomíra Kahulová in 2021

Drahomíra Kahulová

* 1926

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Gypsies / Roma, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jaroslav Kaisler 1953

Jaroslav Kaisler

* 1935

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

Miroslov Kalabus - in the army, 1937

Miroslav Kalabus

* 1914

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Tkalcovský potrait former.jpg (historic)

Josef Kalcovský

* 1919 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Czech minority in the former USSR, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Repatriated

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín

Adolf Kaleta at the time when he fought at Dunkerque

Colonel (ret.) Adolf Kaleta

* 1925 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, western front, National minorities, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord and 1 more anniversaries

Svatoslav Kalich

Svatoslav Kalich

* 1915 †︎ 2015

The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area

Štěpánka Kaliková

Štěpánka Kaliková

* 1921

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

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

Witness Michal Kalina, 2023

Michal Kalina

* 1943

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 9 more anniversaries

Vasil Kalinič

* 1924 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Representative of the Church, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

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, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

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