Witnesses starting with letter L

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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

Josef Lešinger as a member of the auxiliary technical squads (so-called PTP) in 1953

Josef Lešinger

* 1930

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Alexandr Leško, obviously 1945

First Lieutenant (ret.) Alexandr Leško

* 1923 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, The Partisan, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945, Sokol and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Alexandra Leskovjanová in 2025

Alexandra Leskovjanová

* 1941

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Stefan Leśków, Wrocław, 2021

Stefan Leśków

* 1933

Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1939 - 1941 - The first Soviet occupation of Galicia, Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

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