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Emílie Švecová in 1947

Emílie Švecová

* 1935

National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Volhynian Czechs

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

Švejdar Jiří

Jiří Švejdar

* 1922

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

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Evžen Švihlík at the age of sixteen.

Evžen Švihlík

* 1930

Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Red Army soldier, Volhynian Czechs, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 5. 7. 1943 - 5. 8. 1943 - Battle of Kursk, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Svobodinský Eduard1.JPG (historic)

Captain (ret.) Eduard Svobodinský

* 1921

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 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

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

Marie Tasová (1945)

Marie Tasová

* 1922 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Private Miroslav Toman

* 1924

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

Josef Václav Toman, 1992

Colonel (ret.) Josef Václav Toman-Tománek

* 1912 †︎ 2012

National minorities, Political prisoner in WW2, Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance, Radio Free Europe and 5 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 1 more anniversaries

Irena Truplová in her youth

Irena Truplová

* 1943

Volhynian Czechs

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Ludmila Uhlířová (Stárková)

Ludmila Uhlířová

* 1922 †︎ unknown

Czech minority in the former USSR, People helping Jews during WWII, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 3 more categories

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 7 more anniversaries

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