Victim of forced relocation | Memory of Nations

Josef Stingl as a boy at the swimming pool in Hraničná

Prof. MUDr., CSc. Josef Stingl

* 1940

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Memory of vanished settlements

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 4 more anniversaries

Jan Stoiber (2021)

Jan Stoiber

* 1937 †︎ 2024

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Jiří Strádal in 2024

Ing. Jiří Strádal

* 1943

Victim of forced relocation, Déclassé, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Miroslav Střída during his army service

Miroslav Střída

* 1936

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Victim of forced relocation, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering and 1 more anniversaries

Stromszky Dénes

Dénes Stromszky

* 1933

Emigrant, Victim of forced relocation, Hungary

Zdeňka Štýblová

* 1930

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

Karel Suchý

Karel Suchý

* 1931

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Repatriated

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Jaroslav Suk 1979, photo by Jan Bednář

Jaroslav Suk

* 1948

Charter 77 signatory, Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Journalist, Victim of forced relocation and 5 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Marie Šurnická at the turn of the 1950s and 60s

Marie Šurnická

* 1937

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of forced relocation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Walentyna Suryn

Walentyna Suryn

* 1915

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands)

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

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