Witnesses starting with letter L

Jarmila Levko Pešlová at the age of 18 in a picture from the university student´s record book (year 1987)

Ing. Jarmila Levko

* 1969

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Anna Levová

Mgr. Anna Levová

* 1946

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Volhynian Czechs

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

František Levý (2009, Paseky)

František Levý

* 1922 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

As a boy

Ing. Petr Lewi

* 1933

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relatives of important personalities, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 9 more anniversaries

as a child

Professor MUDr., DrSc. Karel Lewit

* 1916 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, western front, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Jiří Lexa, circa 1958

Jiří Lexa

* 1941

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Karel Ležák.jpg (historic)

Karel Ležák

* 1928

Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia

Kamil Lhoták the younger, far left. Photograph from the 1970's

Kamil Lhoták

* 1941

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 1 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 8 more anniversaries

Radomil Lhotka in 1977

Radomil Lhotka

* 1953

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Memory of vanished settlements, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Farmer

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, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle”

František Lhotský as a soldier of the Czechoslovak People's Army in the 1950s

František Lhotský

* 1932 †︎ 2016

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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