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Marie Vychytilová, married Kohli. 1964

Marie Kohli

* 1944

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Leo Kohn in 1945

Leo Kohn

* 1924

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Holocaust, Winton’s Children, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Kohutič Michal

Michal Kohutič

* 1924 †︎ unknown

Forced labour during the WW2, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

Editha Kokojanová

Editha Kokojanová

* 1921 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Josef Kokotek

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, western front, Forced labour during the WW2, Wehrmacht soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area

Richard Kolban

Richard Kolban

* 1924

Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Red Army soldier, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Kolbasňuk Vasil as a member of ČSR police

Lieutenant Colonel Vasil Kolbasňuk

* 1921 †︎ 2011

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Volhynian Czechs

3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Josef Kolečko, cca 1938

Josef Kolečko

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

As a seventh grader on a field trip.

Ing., Colonel Ľubomír Kolenčík

* 1948

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, The Sportsmen, War veteran after 1989

1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence, 1992 - 1995 Bosnian War

Old photo

Alexander Jegorovič Kolesnikov

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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