Witnesses starting with letter L

Ján Lenský

Ján Lenský

* 1928

Emigrant, National minorities, Holocaust, Hidden people

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Young Tamara

Tamara Lenzová

* 1919

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland

Boží tělo, 1943

Aloisie Lepaříková

* 1935

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Aurel Lesák, 1950s

Aurel Lesák

* 1930

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

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František Lesák

* 1922

Forced labour during the WW2, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

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Josef Lesák

* 1920 †︎ 2009

Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Sokol

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 11 more anniversaries

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Karel Lešanovský

* 1929 †︎ 2013

Anti-communist rebel, Boy Scouts

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans)

A photograph from her wedding, 1950

Eliška Leščinská

* 1925

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Ingrid Leser, 2018

Ingrid Leser

* 1949

Sudeten Germans

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Bernard Lesfargues in his garden (2013, photo by Inge Kresser)

Bernard Lesfargues

* 1924 †︎ 2018

National minorities, Writer, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity, France

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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