Victim of forced relocation | Memory of Nations

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Lothar Szielasko

* 1935

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), East German Refugee, Germany

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic, 17.6.1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

Anna Szirtli during recording

Anna Szirtli

* 1939

Hungary, Illegal border crossing, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ewa Szpiech

Ewa Szpiech

* 1932

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956

Bogusław Szumowski

Bogusław Szumowski

* 1936

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Political prisoner in WW2

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

Evdochia Tătaru

* 1926

Bulgaria, Victim of forced relocation, Moldova

1948 - 1955 - Tito - Stalin split, 1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Friedrich von Thun, 2023

Friedrich Thun-Hohenstein

* 1942

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Déclassé, Nobility, A cultural celebrity

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Olga Tichá

Olga Tichá

* 1945

Victim of forced relocation, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Josef Tichý at Technical auxiliary battalions

Josef Tichý

* 1932

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) and 4 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

Jaroslava Tobková in 1945

Jaroslava Tobková

* 1929 †︎ 2025

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

František Toulec, photo from the Kennkarte, an identity card issued by the Germans during the Second World War

Ing. František Toulec

* 1925 †︎ 2023

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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