Witnesses starting with letter K

Helena Krouská before the war

Helena Krouská

* 1921 †︎ 2024

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria

Graduation photograph of Antonín Křoustek

Antonín Křoustek

* 1956

Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Kroutil

* 1944

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

1989. From left: Barbara Kroutilová (daughter), Jiřina Kroutilová, Karel Linha (father). On the farm in Temenice.

Jiřina Kroutilová

* 1937

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Emigrant

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Rudolf Krouza, 1960

PhMr. Rudolf Krouza

* 1944

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Markéta Krouzová, 1984

ak. malířka Markéta Krouzová

* 1952

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Czech community in the US

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Anna Krpešová, around 1950

Anna Krpešová

* 1930

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Božena Kršáková, roz. Vařáková

Božena Kršáková, roz. Vařáková

* 1936 †︎ 2013

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Graduation photo, 1970

Ing. Václav Kršík

* 1951

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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Karel Krška at the army, 1961

Karel Krška

* 1938

13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

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