Witnesses starting with letter K

Miloslava Knobová at Hrubá Skála in summer 1954

Miloslava Knobová

* 1936

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Farmer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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Miroslav Knol

* 1925

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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Blažena Knoppová, rod. Riesová

* 1931 †︎ 2019

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Fights with Bandera's forces, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Knorr Miloš at wartimes

Major General (ret.) Miloš Knorr

* 1918 †︎ 2008

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Veteran of WW2, western front

Dagmar Knorrová as a child

Mgr. Ing. Dagmar Knorrová

* 1937

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Victim of forced relocation, Repatriated

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Sister Bohdana Knotková in 1954

Božena Knotková

* 1931 †︎ 2021

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Friars, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns, 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

Irena Knotková

Irena Knotková

* 1923

Boy Scouts

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák

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Ludmila Kňourková

* 1927

Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Member of Orel

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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 and 5 more anniversaries

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Andrej (Ondřej) Koba

* 1919 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Josef Kobau in September 2022, Eibenthal - Romania

Josef Kobau

* 1949

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Victim of forced relocation

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

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