Veteran of WW2, eastern front

Veterans

Jindřich Benda

* 1922 †︎ unknown

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vladimír Beran in Czechoslovakian army troop (builder´s company- Prague 1945)

Vladimír Beran

* 1925 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

Miroslav Bernat in the army

Private First Class (ret.) Miroslav Bernat

* 1924 †︎ 2024

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Participant in antifascist resistance and 5 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 4 more anniversaries

Josef Bialas, Wehrmacht military book, Breslau (Wroclaw), January 1945

Josef Bialas

* 1927 †︎ 2025

Wehrmacht soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany

Michal Bindzar, Marianske Lazne, March 2007

Michal Bindzar

* 1922 †︎ 2020

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

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Věra Biněvská-Holuběva

* 1929

Czech minority in the former USSR, Emigrant, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

František Bocek in January 2012

František Bocek

* 1928 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Wehrmacht soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Antonín Bohatý

Antonín Bohatý

* 1913 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier, People helping Jews during WWII

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, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

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Lieutenant Colonel Jan Bohdan

* 1921 †︎ 2016

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

Alla Boroličová, née Karfíková, of Zbolbunovo, nurse. Source: Československé ženy

Alla Boroličová

* 1922

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 3 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 4 more anniversaries

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