Witnesses starting with letter Ž

Zdenek Zert

Ing. Zdeněk Žert

* 1922 †︎ 2016

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

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

Leo Žídek

Leo Žídek

* 1932

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts

2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Marie Žídková as a gymnasium student / around 1949

Marie Žídková

* 1933

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

The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Božena Židoňová

Božena Židoňová

* 1935

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Liselote - usual childhood

Liselotte Židová

* 1930 †︎ 2014

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, People helping Jews during WWII

Pavel Žigo

Pavel Žigo

* 1919 †︎ 2006

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

As a young man

Cyril Žilka

* 1933

Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Tibor Žilka in 60's

Prof. PhDr., DrSc. Tibor Žilka

* 1939

Hungary, People helping Jews during WWII, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Scientist and 1 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

At young age

Radomír Žingor

* 1936

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Václav Žitný

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Václav Žitný

* 1925 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR and 3 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 3 more anniversaries

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