Witnesses starting with letter M

Miroslav Maruška

Miroslav Maruška

* 1923 †︎ 2010

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Irena Eislerová before the war

Irena Marvanová

* 1929

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Anna Marxová (Vlášková) in youth

Anna Marxová

* 1926

Bata school Graduate, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Emma Marxová, 1959, historical photography

Emma Marxová

* 1937

Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Myroslav Marynovych (1970s)

Myroslav Marynovych Мирослав Маринович

* 1949

Human Rights Defender in Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukrainian Dissent, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, Ukraine in 1986–1991

Jan Maryška, 1913

Jan Maryška

* 1890 †︎ 1976

Political prisoner in WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Hidden people, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

Vojtěch Máša as a young feast leader

Vojtěch Máša

* 1947 †︎ 2016

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989

31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

Miroslav Masák in 1942

Miroslav Masák

* 1932

Dissident, Déclassé, Boy Scouts, Scientist, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 3 more anniversaries

As a young man

August Masár

* 1942

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Mária Masařová / Ostrava / 1950s

Mária Masařová

* 1936 †︎ 2021

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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