Witnesses starting with letter K

Marta Košťálová (1940s)

Marta Košťálová

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2, Politician

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Jarmila Kostecká, 1951

Jarmila Kostecká

* 1933 †︎ 2024

Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 5 more anniversaries

Wedding photograph of Ludmila Koštejnová, 1958

Ludmila Koštejnová

* 1935

Déclassé, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 7 more anniversaries

František Kostelanský in 1949

doc. Ing.,CSc. František Kostelanský

* 1931

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

Josef Kostelecký in his youth

Ing. Josef Kostelecký

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Miner work

Božetěch Kostelka

* 1931

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Member of Orel

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Gerhold Kostelnik, 1968

Gerhold Kostelník

* 1937

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Vilibald Kostelník, Hlučín, October 1972

Vilibald Kostelník

* 1940 †︎ 2024

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Witness Astrid Kostelníková during eyd recording in 2022

PhDr. Astrid Kostelníková

* 1943

Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities, Nobility, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories

family photo of Kostelni family - from left to right: 3rd row: Anna (from Kostelni house, the narrator's sister), her husband - Dmytro Kish, sister Mariya Kostelna; 2nd row: neighbor, Mykhailo - father of the respondent, respondent, mother Kateryna (from Dembitski house), son of Hanna and Dmytro sitting in her arms; 3rd row - sister Ivanna Kostelna. Yuzhnaya mine, Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo region

Bohdan Kostelnyi Богдан Костельний

* 1945

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

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