Witnesses starting with letter K

Juraj Kuzma

* 1970

Gypsies / Roma, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Ing. Jaroslav Kužminski

* 1960

War veteran after 1989, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

1992 - 1995 Bosnian War

Emilie Kuzněcov

Emilie Kuzněcov, roz. Maková

* 1928

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukraine

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, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia

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Alois Kuznicius

* 1923

Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Wehrmacht soldier

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ladislav Kváča in the 1960s

Ladislav Kváča

* 1933

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Jaroslav Kvaček

Jaroslav Kvaček

* 1912 †︎ 2008

French Foreign Legion, Royal Air Force, Veteran of WW2, western front

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Photograph from my youth, undated

Professor, PhDr. Robert Kvaček , CSc.

* 1932 †︎ 2024

Historian, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Scientist, University professor

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Cut out from a family photograph of Andělín Kvapil, 1950s

Andělín Kvapil

* 1931

Spolupracovník Vojenské kontrarozvědky, Germany, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 4 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Kvapil in 1971

Ing. Jaroslav Kvapil

* 1953

Member of Orel, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Boy Scouts, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 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

Jiří Kvapil on a picture from 1980

Jiří Kvapil

* 1949

Representative of the Church, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák and 2 more anniversaries

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