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Ján Bačkovský as an army officer after the war, undated

Major General (ret.) Ján Bačkovský

* 1919 †︎ 2006

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Illegal border crossing, National minorities

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Jiřina Bajborová

Second Lieutenant Jiřina Bajborová

* 1925 †︎ 2011

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

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

Staff Sergeant Jaroslav Balák

* 1927 †︎ 2006

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

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

Barteisová Anastázie

Private First Class (ret.) Anastázie Barteisová

* 1927 †︎ 2022

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

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland

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Jiří Bartoš

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

6.4. - 23.4.1941 Battle of Greece

Vladimír Baume

Second Lieutenant Vladimír Baum

* 1922 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain and 2 more anniversaries

Konstanty Bałtrusiewicz

Konstanty Bałtrusiewicz

* 1924

Poland, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), People's Army of Poland soldier, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 1 more categories

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Peter Bednárik

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Alexandr Beer

Brigadier General (ret.) Alexander Beer

* 1917 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Political prisoner in WW2, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Red Army soldier

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 4 more anniversaries

Ivan Bančák - old photo

Colonel (ret.) Ivan Benčák

* 1919 †︎ 2007

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Red Army soldier, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

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