Witnesses starting with letter L

Period photo, André Lenard in 1958

André Lenard

* 1940

Holocaust, Repatriated, Relatives of important personalities

1940 - The Battle of France, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Mária Lendelová

* 1944

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Peter Lenek

Peter Lenek

* 1961

The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Vlastimír Lenert after a European Champions Cup match in the 1970s. Dukla Liberec played with Bulgaria's CSKA Sofia

Lieutenant (ret.) Vlastimír Lenert

* 1950 †︎ 2023

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1979 - 1989 - Sovětská invaze do Afghánistánu, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Gabriella Lengyel

* 1948

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, Victim of the political police in Hungary

Jan Leníček in Rájec, 1985

Ing. Jan Leníček

* 1945

Environmentalist, Scientist, Life along the Iron Curtain

31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster and 2 more anniversaries

Lenkavský Alojz

Alojz Lenkavský

* 1932

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Illustrative photographs of soldiers from the Czechoslovak Army from the ranks of Volhynian Czechs

Mikuláš Lenoch

* 1925 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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

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