Witnesses starting with letter B

The village Kyrylivka in the 1930s. Probably a school photo

Marija Mychajlivna Bozhko

* 1946

Ukraine, National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands) and 2 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Witness Mojmír Božík during eyd recording

Mojmír Božík

* 1962

The Sportsmen

Witness in 2nd or 3rd grade, Polička, around1962-63

Jiří Brabec

* 1954

Radio Free Europe, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Corporal Josef Brabec

* 1924 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Vladimír Brabec in 1950s

Vladimír Brabec

* 1924 †︎ 2023

Representative of the Church, Illegal border crossing, Non-Catholic clerical, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Journalist and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 3 more anniversaries

Helena Brabencová (en)

Helena Brabencová

* 1927

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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František Brabenec

* 1949

Victim of forced relocation, Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Josef Brabenec

First Lieutenant Josef Brabenec

* 1921 †︎ 2004

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Kamil Brabenec (left) in a fight with Soviet giant, 221 centimeters tall Vladimir Tkachenko, at the European Championships, 1981

Kamil Brabenec

* 1951

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26.8.-11.9.1972 - Summer Games of the XX Olympiad , Munich , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

As a young man, photo taken by Ondřej Němec

Vratislav Brabenec

* 1943

The Plastic People of the Universe, Dissident, Charter 77 signatory

1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

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