Witnesses starting with letter K

Richard Kolban

Richard Kolban

* 1924

Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Red Army soldier, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Kolbasňuk Vasil as a member of ČSR police

Lieutenant Colonel Vasil Kolbasňuk

* 1921 †︎ 2011

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

3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

University student; September 1961

Ing. Jiří Kolda

* 1942

Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Michal Kolečko in 2019

Professor, PhDr. Michal Koleček

* 1966

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r

Young man František Kolečkář

František Kolečkář

* 1932 †︎ 2019

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Josef Kolečko, cca 1938

Josef Kolečko

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Zdeněk Kolek

Zdeněk Kolek

* 1933

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

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

As a seventh grader on a field trip.

Ing., Colonel Ľubomír Kolenčík

* 1948

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, The Sportsmen, War veteran after 1989

1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence, 1992 - 1995 Bosnian War

Old photo

Alexander Jegorovič Kolesnikov

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Viktoria Kolesnikova in 2024

Viktoria Kolesnikova

* 1959

Ukraine

2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

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