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Second Lieutenant (ret.) Ladislav Kostovič

* 1927 †︎ 2016

National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Repatriated, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance and 1 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Anna Kostovičová

* 1922 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Political prisoner in WW2, National minorities, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

After the war injury

ThDr. Daniel Kostsánszky

* 1929 †︎ 2020

Non-Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Hanuš Kotek in the year 1941

Hanuš Kotek

* 1920 †︎ 2002

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord

Jiří Kotek during the shooting

Ing. Jiří Kotek

* 1957

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Politician, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Anti-communist rebel

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jaroslava Kotlabová, née Rettingerová, as a teacher in 1952

Jaroslava Kotlabová

* 1932 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Iva Kotrlá, youth

Iva Kotrlá

* 1947

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 2 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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Josef Kotyza

* 1923 †︎ 2021

National minorities, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Marie Koubíková in her youth

Marie Koubíková

* 1920

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance

Josef Koudela

Josef Koudela

* 1922 †︎ 2019

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden

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