Veteran of WW2, eastern front | Memory of Nations

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Second Lieutenant Miroslav Jersák

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

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Jiřina Jiráková

* 1926 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 1 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad and 3 more anniversaries

Vasil Jovbak

Colonel (ret.) Vasil Jovbak

* 1923 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 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, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov and 2 more anniversaries

Erich Jucker Prague 1945

Erich Jucker

* 1912 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo and 1 more anniversaries

Jiri Kaderabek, historical photograph

staff sergeant (ret.) Jiří Kadeřábek

* 1926 †︎ 2024

Czech minority in the former USSR, Holocaust, National minorities, Repatriated, Participant in antifascist resistance and 5 more categories

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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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

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)

Josef Kaufman

Josef Kaufman

* 1926 †︎ 2022

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs and 2 more categories

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 2 more anniversaries

Ladislav Kilián

Colonel (ret.) Ladislav Kilián

* 1922 †︎ 2006

Czech minority in the former USSR, Border Guards, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

Nathan Kisler

* 1918

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

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

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