Witnesses starting with letter H

Pavel Hoffmann after the liberation in 1945

Pavel Hoffmann

* 1939

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz and 3 more anniversaries

Portrait from 1970 (23 years old)

Ing. Roland Hoffmann

* 1947

Germany, Victim of forced relocation

13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 1 more anniversaries

Hana Hoffmeisterová in 1928

MUDr. Hana Hoffmeisterová

* 1920 †︎ 2023

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Čestmír Hofhanzl

RNDr. Čestmír Hofhanzl

* 1941 †︎ 2020

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner

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, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Bohuslav Hofman as a 10 years old boy

Bohuslav Hofman

* 1944

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jan Augustin Hofman

Jan Augustin Hofman

* 1955

Dissident, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

HOFMAN 2.jpg (historic)

Colonel Jiří Hofman

* 1923 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

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

At work, 1987

MUDr. Vilém Hofman

* 1937

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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

In a childhood photo from the late 1940s

Horst Hofmann

* 1940

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Josef Hofmann in the Wehrmacht, 1944

Private (ret.) Josef Hofmann

* 1926 †︎ 2011

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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