Witnesses starting with letter H

Jozef Haríň

Colonel (ret.) Jozef Haríň

* 1921 †︎ 2007

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, The Partisan and 3 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Young Václav Harmáček

Václav Harmáček

* 1937

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Bohumil Harmonický in 2024

Bohumil Harmonický

* 1963

Human Rights Defender, Dissident, Border Guards, Politician, Anti-communist rebel and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Isabella Harnier 2023

Isabella Harnier

* 1946

United States of America, Germany, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Nobility

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Věra Harrerová in a period photograph

Věra Harrerová

* 1927

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Avraham Harshalom during his air force training

Avraham Harshalom

* 1925 †︎ 2024

Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Hidden people and 1 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel), 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Jarmila Harsová as a child

Jarmila Harsová

* 1947 †︎ 2021

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Ladislav Hartman, 1949

PhDr. Ladislav Hartman

* 1930 †︎ 2022

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Cecílie Hartošová, late 1930s

Cecílie Hartošová

* 1929

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, Death marches 1944-1945

Maria Hartung, Plesná 2022

Maria Hartung

* 1936

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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