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Zdeněk Urban in 1943

Zdeněk Urban

* 1935 †︎ 2023

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Theresienstadt Ghetto, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Déclassé, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR) and 12 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 10 more anniversaries

Cecílie Urbancová as a university student, Brno, 1954

Cecílie Urbancová

* 1931

Boy Scouts, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

Dagmar Urbánková cca in 1950

MUDr. Dagmar Urbánková

* 1926 †︎ 2024

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Jana Urbanová, née Klačerová, in the summer of 1945 after her return from Terezín

Jana Urbanová

* 1937 †︎ 2023

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Judis Urbanová, 2023

Judis Urbanová

* 1940

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Milena Urbanová in the 1960s

Milena Urbanová

* 1933

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Zora Kopacova (Urbanova) 1946

Zora Urbanová

* 1927

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

As a school kid

Egon Urmann

* 1945

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

In youth

Róbert Uškovitš

* 1928 †︎ 2023

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Robert Utikal in 2022

Robert Utikal

* 1969

National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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