Witnesses starting with letter Š

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

Bohumír Švestka

Bohumír Švestka

* 1946

Farmer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Petr Švestka zamlada

Petr Švestka

* 1959

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Emigrant, Boy Scouts and 2 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Květoslav Švihla in emigration in the USA

Květoslav Švihla

* 1933

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel

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

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Marie Švirgová, roz. Svačinová

* 1936 †︎ 2022

A cultural celebrity, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Sixteen Ernestina Patoprstá

Ernestina Švorcová

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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František Švrček

* 1912 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, International Brigadiers

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain

Milan Švrčina goes back to Ukraine in February 2023

Milan Švrčina

* 1988

Ukraine

2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Kryscina Šyjanok, 2022

Kryscina Šyjanok

* 1986

Belarus

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