Witnesses starting with letter K

Bohdana and Lavrentiya Talanchuk in front of the barracks, 1950s

Lavrentiya Khariv Лаврентія Харів

* 1944

Ukraine, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

Khin Maung Shwe

* 1968

Burma/Myanmar

Khin Maung Win (aka) Aung Chit

* 1958

Burma/Myanmar

Lubomír Khýr / around the year 1989

Lubomír Khýr

* 1969

Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Eva Sikorová, after marriage Kiedrońová / around 1960

Eva Kiedrońová

* 1941

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

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Rudolf Kiesewetter, Weidenberg, May 2019

Rudolf Kiesewetter

* 1932

Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

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

Ivan Kieslinger

Ivan Kieslinger

* 1928 †︎ 2020

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Andrzej Kiełczewski

* 1959

Poland, Anti-communist protests in Czechoslovakia in Milevsko and Sedlčansko

26.8. 1980 Solidarity strike in Wroclaw

Nino Kighuradze, 2023

Nino Kighuradze ნინო კიღურაძე

* 1934

Georgia, Relative of a political prisoner

Perestroika, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Ladislav Kilián

Colonel (ret.) Ladislav Kilián

* 1922 †︎ 2006

Czech minority in the former USSR, Border Guards, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

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