Witnesses starting with letter Š

Josef Švancara in 2004

Josef Švancara

* 1934 †︎ 2025

Holocaust, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

Period portrait of Pavel Švanda

Professor Pavel Švanda

* 1936

Journalist, Relative of a political prisoner, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Alena Švandová as a high school graduate

RNDr. Alena Švandová

* 1950

Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ludmila Švandová, graduation photo, 1954

Ludmila Švandová

* 1935

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

František Švarc in 1968

František Švarc

* 1953

Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 2 more anniversaries

Josef Švarc in 1945

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Josef Švarc

* 1926 †︎ 2020

Forced labour during the WW2, Veteran of WW2, western front

5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Otakar doing his military service, , Lom near Most, 1952

Otakar Švarc

* 1931 †︎ 2020

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

18. 4. 1945 - Zákřovský masakr

As a musician in a music band

Stanislav Švarc

* 1925 †︎ 2019

National minorities, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Relative of a political prisoner, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, Ukraine in 1986–1991 and 2 more anniversaries

Švec Emil

Emil Švec

* 1925 †︎ 2010

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Jiří Švec (Summer camp at Česká Cikánka in 1969)

Jiří Švec

* 1929 †︎ 2009

Boy Scouts

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

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