Witnesses starting with letter K

Dimitrij Kadrnožka, 2015

academic painter Dimitrij Kadrnožka

* 1923 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich

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Jonas Kadžionis

* 1928

Lithuania, The Partisan, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

1944 - 1953 The Partisan war in Lithuania

A current photo

Arnošt Kafka

* 1938

Illegal border crossing, Déclassé, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Felix Kafka 2016

Dr. Felix Kafka

* 1925

National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Winton’s Children, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Jiří Kafka as a RAF pilot

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Jiří Pavel Kafka

* 1924

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Wedding photos of Mr. and Mrs. Kafka

Karel Kafka

* 1946

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Ladislav Kafka (1950)

Ladislav Kafka

* 1929

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner, Underage political prisoners, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Věra in 1954

Věra Kafková

* 1937

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Oldrich Kafunek at World Scout Jamboree in 1947

Oldřich Kafuněk

* 1928 †︎ 2017

Boy Scouts

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1947 - Jamboree in France, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague

Karel Kahoun

Karel Kahoun

* 1935 †︎ 2012

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

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