Witnesses starting with letter B

Lubomír Burdych

Lubomír Burdych

* 1928

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Forced labour during the WW2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Bures as a little boy in 1947

Jan Bureš

* 1943

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hidden people

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 6 more anniversaries

Petr Bureš

Petr Bureš

* 1949

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Václav Bureš, circa 1970

Václav Bureš

* 1947

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria

Věra Burešová, second half of the 1950s

Věra Burešová

* 1928

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Věra Burešová 1945

Věra Burešová

* 1924

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Věra Burešová (en)

Věra Burešová

* 1939

Relatives of important personalities

Zdenka Burešová in 1976

Bachelor Zdenka Burešová

* 1946

Relatives of important personalities, 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

Adolf Burger

Adolf Burger

* 1917 †︎ 2016

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Alexander Burger

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Alexander Burger

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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