Witnesses starting with letter K

Alsu Kurmasheva, Praha 2025

Alsu Kurmasheva

* 1976

Political prisoner, United States of America, Russia, Journalist, Radio Free Europe

Emílie Kuročenko (Tenglerová) -1961

Ing. Emilie Kuročenko (Tenglerová)

* 1944

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Ukraine

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Jenovéfa as a child

Mgr. Jenovéfa Kůrová

* 1944

Eduard Kürsten in 1962

Klaus Eduard Kürsten

* 1936

People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Repatriated

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral

Jan Kuruc in the Red Army-1945

Jan Kuruc

* 1926 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Red Army soldier

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Michal Kurucar in army service (1957)

Michal Kurucár

* 1934

Friars, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

Annemarie Kury, a portrait

Annemarie Kury

* 1932

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Austria

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

Zita Kurzová during EYD recording.

Zita Kurzová

* 1944

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Hidden people

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Kůs as a young man

Josef Kůs

* 1938 †︎ 2025

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, 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, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Maria Kuś

Maria Kuś

* 1931

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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