Witnesses starting with letter B

Ivan Bančák - old photo

Colonel (ret.) Ivan Benčák

* 1919 †︎ 2007

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Red Army soldier, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

Ján Benček

M.Eng. Ján Benček

* 1921 †︎ 2016

Secret police informer, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989

Ján Benčík

* 1948

Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Antonie Bencová in 2021

Antonie Bencová

* 1939

Romania, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Portrait

RNDr. Ján Bencúr

* 1950

Environmentalist, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jindřich Benda

* 1922 †︎ unknown

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Benda

* 1924

Veteran of WW2, western front, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Josef Benda

Josef Benda

* 1927

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Farmer

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

M. Benda- period portrait

Miloslav Benda

* 1919

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Miroslav Benda, 1952

Miroslav Benda

* 1932

Sokol

19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

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