Veteran of WW2, eastern front | Memory of Nations

Contemporary portrait of Jan Gomola wearing the Wehrmacht uniform

Jan Gomola

* 1916 †︎ 2021

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Wehrmacht soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Libuše Gramišová

* 1928

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

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

Gronsky_1950.JPG (historic)

Ján Gronský

* 1928 †︎ 2023

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts, A secret police collaborator and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

As a twenty-year-old, Jaroslav Grosman was „totally mounted“ into a branch of the company Daimler-Benz in Nová Paka. Along with friends they disrupted the power line and thus closed down part of the factory.

Jaroslav Grosman

* 1924 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, Agent of the western secret services (cold war) and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Jozef Gula (en)

Jozef Gula

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 6 more categories

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

Jarmila Halbrštátová

Jarmila Habrštátová

* 1924 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag and 1 more categories

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, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov and 1 more anniversaries

Vasil Hajdur

* 1919 †︎ 2015

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

hajek_bohumir_portret_1940.JPG (historic)

Bohumír Hájek

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Illegal border crossing

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

Václav Hajný

Václav Hajný

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), National minorities, Volhynian Czechs and 4 more categories

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, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

Year 1945

Václav Hajný

* 1927 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

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

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