Witnesses starting with letter Š

Pavel Švec during the war

Colonel (ret.) Pavel Švec

* 1924 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Rudolf Švec in Holýšov, 1963

Rudolf Švec

* 1948

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Václav Janovič Švec

Václav Janovič Švec

* 1917 †︎ 2012

National minorities, Red Army soldier, Czech minority in the former USSR

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

Ludmila Švecová, current photography

Ludmila Švecová

* 1939

Victim of forced relocation, Political prisoner in WW2, Radio Free Europe, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral and 2 more anniversaries

Marie Švecová, 2018

Marie Švecová

* 1932 †︎ unknown

Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Josef Švéda

* 1935

Bata school Graduate, Boy Scouts

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Radslav Švéda

Radslav Švéda

* 1949

Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Odbojová skupina bratří Mašínů, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Zdeněk Švéda

Zdeněk Švéda

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Memory of vanished settlements

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Naděžda Švédová in 1955

Ing. Naděžda Švédová

* 1931

People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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