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Helena Křikavová

Staff Sergeant (ret.) Helena Křikavová

* 1923 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Volhynian Czechs, Relatives of important personalities

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín

Josef Křístek, Alexandria

Josef Křístek

* 1919 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Tomáš Křivánek during filming

Tomáš Křivánek

* 1955

Anti-communist rebel, Art and censorship

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

Radka Křivánková

Radka Křivánková

* 1932 †︎ 2019

Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

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Colonel (ret.), ThDr. Jan Křivka

* 1926 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, western front, Representative of the Church, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR

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

Křivka Zdeněk October 2007 Brno II

Zdeněk Křivka

* 1927 †︎ 2012

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced labour during the WW2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Vaclav Kriz - Prisoner

Václav Kříž

* 1925

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Agent of the western secret services (cold war), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Leonid Křížek (1965)

Leonid Křížek

* 1947

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia

Josip Križmanić

Josip Križmanić

* 1926

National minorities, The Partisan, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Croatia

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Rastislav Krkoška

* 1977

Bosnia and Herzegovina, War veteran after 1989, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1992 - 1995 Bosnian War

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