Witnesses starting with letter L

Josef Lesný, picture from military ID

Josef Lesný

* 1911 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Holocaust, Red Army soldier, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW, Hungary

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Vasyl Lesyshin (on the photo - the first person on the left side) with friends from Latvia, special settlement Ust-Shysh, winter of 1952 or 1953.

Vasyl Lesyshyn Василь Лесишин

* 1947

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

witness Emil Letko just after the end of II. World War II, photographed before the memorial to the victims of World War I in Selce

Emil Letko

* 1933

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Ivan Letko 3

Ivan Letko

* 1934 †︎ 2024

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

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Elena Letňanová during a concert in the American city of Dayton (1989)

Elena Letňanová

* 1942

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Relatives of important personalities, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral and 2 more anniversaries

Portrait

Ludmila Levá

* 1934

Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities

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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 3 more anniversaries

Eliška Levinská

Eliška Levinská

* 1930

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria

Magdalena Levinská (en)

Magdalena Levinská

* 1936

Relative of a political prisoner, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ludmila as a 20-year-old

Ludmila Levínská, roz. Metteová

* 1916

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

René Levínský

Ing. René Levínský Ph.D.

* 1970

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

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