Witnesses starting with letter O

Opočenský Jiří

First Lieutenant Jiří Opočenský

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Vladislav Opočenský

Vladislav Opočenský

* 1921 †︎ 2013

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

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, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

In 1952 in Prague

Ing. Tomáš Oráč roz. Offenberg

* 1928

Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Hidden people

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State and 1 more anniversaries

Tadeusz Oratowski at the end of the 1960s as commander of a tank platoon of the 11th Mechanized Regiment of the 4th Division.

Colonel Tadeusz Oratowski

* 1943

Poland, Holocaust, People's Army of Poland soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Petr Oravec

Petr Oravec

* 1964

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, The underground, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Jaroslav Orawski, 2018

Ing. Jaroslav Orawski

* 1937

Representative of the Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ludmila Ordnungová in a jump in the Sparta Prague jersey. This match is from 1954

Mgr. Ludmila Ordnungová

* 1934

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Bálint Ordódy in Visegrád

Bálint Ordódy

* 1931

Hungary, Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Emigrant, Déclassé, Radio Free Europe

1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 1946-1949 nationalization of private enterprises and institutions in Hungary, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Jan Orlický

PhDr. Jan Orlický

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

František Orlovský during EYD filming.

František Orlovský

* 1928 †︎ 2025

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

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