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Bohumil Dubec around 2003

Bohumil Dubec

* 1916 †︎ 2003

French Foreign Legion, Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing and 3 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France

Konrád Dubský, Scotland. 1945

Konrád Dubský

* 1916 †︎ unknown

French Foreign Legion, Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Royal Air Force, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign

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Karel Dufek

* 1916 †︎ 2009

International Brigadiers, Communist official, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Veteran of WW2, western front

20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Duncan James, a portrait

James Duncan

* 1925 †︎ 2022

Veteran of WW2, western front

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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Vilém Dvořák

* 1921 †︎ 2009

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Veteran of WW2, western front

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

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Petr Ehrmann

* 1926 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

František Elston

* 1922 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Holocaust, Royal Air Force, Winton’s Children and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

A Portrait of Hugo Engelhart on the Day of His Marriage

Hugo Engelhart

* 1926 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sudeten Germans and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , Battle of the Bulge, 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest and 8 more anniversaries

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Libuše Fajkošová

* 1925

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Sudeten Germans, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Veteran of WW2, western front and 1 more categories

5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area

František Fajtl

František Fajtl

* 1912 †︎ 2006

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Royal Air Force, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

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