Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine | Memory of Nations

František Matějovský

* 1925 †︎ unknown

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, Holocaust, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2 and 9 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Baley in 1957, Yulia with parents

Yulia Nykolyn Юлія Николин

* 1957

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Victim of forced relocation, Relative of a political prisoner, Ukrainians in the GULAG, 1944 - 1990 and 1 more categories

Ukraine in 1986–1991

Stepan Prytula in his youth

Stepan Prytula Степан Притула

* 1934

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Victim of forced relocation, Ukrainians in the GULAG, 1944 - 1990

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands

Poldina Pirklová (Semančinová) in 1937

Poldina Semančinová

* 1927

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine

Yaroslav Nahirnyi - Mariya's brother, born in 1954 in a special settlement.

Mariya Shovhenyuk Шовгенюк Марія

* 1949

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

A childhood photo of Volodymyr Shvets sent to his mother in Siberia in 1950.

Volodymyr Shvets Володимир Швець

* 1949

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

Halina Staňková in 1937

Halina Staňková

* 1936 †︎ 2024

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 5 more categories

23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Jiřina Svobodová, 1980s

Jiřina Svobodová

* 1937

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Ukrainians in the GULAG, 1944 - 1990 and 1 more categories

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Ярослав Тихий

Yaroslav Tykhyi Ярослав Тихий

* 1913 †︎ 1996

Ukraine, Clergymen, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Member of underground Plast movement (Ukrainian boy-scouts) in Halychyna 1930-1939, Representative of the Church and 2 more categories

Jaroslav Višněvský (Chudoba) with his class as a Czech teacher (detail)

Boris Višněvský

* 1937

Victim of Nazi persecution in Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Volhynian Czechs

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

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