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Valerián Klaban and Evžen Carboch

Major (ret.) Valerián Klaban

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

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

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Helena Kleinová

* 1948

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Israel/Palestine, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to 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 and 4 more anniversaries

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Andrej (Ondřej) Koba

* 1919 †︎ 2014

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

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, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Eva Kočanová, roz. Markovičová

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

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, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR

Václav Kocek, 23.10.2013

Lieutenant (ret.) Václav Kocek

* 1924 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR and 3 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

Gabriel Kocmal

Second Lieutenant Gabriel Kocmal

* 1921 †︎ 2012

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

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

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

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

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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

Mikuláš Končický

Mikuláš Končický

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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

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