Witnesses starting with letter D

Jan Demčík

Jan Demčík

* 1913 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR

Eva Demelová about three years in front of Michalc's house in Nořín. This photo was sent by her family to Hagibor, apparently with a package. On the other side of the photo is written: Eva, we greet you and come to us soon, we are looking forward to you, dad and grandma, Helenka greets you. Write when we could come for you.

Eva Demelová

* 1936

Theresienstadt Ghetto, People helping Jews during WWII

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

Michal Demjan

Michal Demjan

* 1921 †︎ 2019

A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Political prisoner in WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

PhDr. Ondrej Demo CSc.

* 1927 †︎ 2020

Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Alois Denemarek

* 1917 †︎ 2013

Participant in antifascist resistance, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Hidden people

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Judit Dénes in 2023, during an interview

Judit Dénes

* 1946

Hungary

Otto Deneš

Otto Deneš

* 1918 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Valentyna Platonivna Denysjuk, 1957

Valentyna Platonivna Denysjuk

* 1929

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Anti-communist rebel, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Structures of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (radio operators, partisans, etc.) and 6 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950 and 3 more anniversaries

Ondřej Derbak 1938

Ondřej (Andrej) Derbák

* 1914 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Mrs. Děrdová 1940s

Zdeňka Děrdová

* 1926

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

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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