Witnesses starting with letter B

Katarína Skalová (married Bendová ) shortly after the end of the war - in her 16 years

Katarína Bendová, rod. Skalová

* 1929 †︎ 2020

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Hidden people

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Juan F. Benemelis EyeDirect Miami_

Juan F. Benemelis

* 1942

Cuba, Diplomat, Emigrant, Memories about Fidel Castro, Cuban Exile

Cuba after 1959, Triumph of the Revolution (Cuba)

Antonín Beneš

Antonín Beneš

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12. 9. 1944 Bombing of St. Ján´s wood near Kladno

Benno Beneš during the military service

Pater Benno Beneš

* 1938 †︎ 2020

Member of an Illegal Church, Catholic clerical, Friars

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Contemporary portrait

František Beneš

* 1923

Volhynian Czechs, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950

František Benes

František Beneš

* 1928

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Anti-communist rebel

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Ivan Beneš after graduation, Prague, 1971

RNDr., CSc. Ivan Beneš

* 1948

Environmentalist, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Scientist, Life along the Iron Curtain

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial and 4 more anniversaries

Ivo Beneš

Ivo Beneš

* 1934

Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Jan Beneš as a young man

Jan Beneš

* 1936 †︎ 2007

Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Jaroslav Beneš as the so-called manicka, 1975

Jaroslav Beneš

* 1946

Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

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