Witnesses starting with letter K

Dagmar Koverdynská

Dagmar Koverdynská

* 1947 †︎ 2024

A cultural celebrity, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Jiří Kovtan

* unknown

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, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

Jiří Kovtun

Jiří Kovtun

* 1927 †︎ 2014

Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Journalist, Radio Free Europe

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Libuše Kowačová

Libuše Kowačová

* 1922

Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

Lucia Kowalska

Lucia Kowalska

* 1931

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Otmar Kowar as a mayor of Unsferau-Altweitra town (around 2018)

Otmar Kowar

* 1968

Politician, Farmer, Life along the Iron Curtain, Austria

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Ladislav Koza.jpg (historic)

Ladislav Koza

* 1923

Forced labour during the WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Mr. Kozák as a tourist in his young years

Mgr. Jan Kozák

* 1951

Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school

17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Jaroslav Kozák

* 1943

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Sportsmen

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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

kozak_jaroslav_solo.jpg (historic)

Private First Class (Chief Warrant Officer) Jaroslav Kozák

* 1929 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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