Veteran of WW2, eastern front | Memory of Nations

„Every minute of training they prepared us for combat at a front, not for some hanging about.“ Jaroslav Citterberg during service to Tiso’s Slovak State.

Jozef Citterberg

* 1921 †︎ 2014

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

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, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Citterbergova Vera

Sergeant Věra Citterbergová

* 1926 †︎ 2007

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

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

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Božena Cohenová

* 1913

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel)

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Vasil Coka

* 1923 †︎ 2015

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

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 and 1 more anniversaries

Antonie Cupalová

Corporal (ret.) Antonie Cupalová

* 1922 †︎ 2009

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 2 more categories

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 1 more anniversaries

František Cvoliga

František Cvoliga

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Veteran of WW2, eastern front

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Damašek, 1945

Zdeněk Damašek

* 1925 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

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 , 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia

Emil Dědek

* 1914

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

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

Jan Demčík

Jan Demčík

* 1913 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, 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, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR

Michal Demjan

Michal Demjan

* 1921 †︎ 2019

A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Political prisoner in WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

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