Witnesses starting with letter M

mazurek_robert_1945.jpg (historic)

Sergeant (ret.) Robert Mazurek

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Veteran of WW2, western front, Wehrmacht soldier

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Vladislav Mec

* unknown

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

mewchura orez.jpg (historic)

Pater Bohumil Měchura

* 1922 †︎ 2014

Representative of the Church, Sudeten Germans, Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories

JUDr. Jan Mečíř in 1948

JUDr. Jan Mečíř

* 1921

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced labour during the WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Eva Mečlová in 1955 in her graduation photo

Eva Mečlová

* 1938

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jaroslav Med

Jaroslav Med

* 1932 †︎ 2018

A cultural celebrity, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

picture after the War

Susanne Medas

* 1923

Emigrant, Holocaust, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Winton’s Children

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Period photograph from the war period

Ivo Medek

* 1936

Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Artists and 1 more categories

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

As a young man at a conference

Ing. Vlastimír Medek

* 1926 †︎ 2020

The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Hadis Medenčević, 18 January 2024

Hadis Medenčević

* 1968

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Refugee

1992 - 1995 Bosnian War

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