Witnesses starting with letter P

Arnošt Polák

Colonel Arnošt Polák

* 1923 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Holocaust, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR

Bedřich Polák

Bedřich Polák

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

František Polák as a young man

František Polák

* 1952

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Martin Polák at the recording

MUDr. Martin Polák

* 1960

Holocaust, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Miroslav Polák in his workshop, where he makes wooden toys

Miroslav Polák

* 1934

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

Richard Polák in 2025

Ing. Richard Polák

* 1951

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Vladimír Polák 1

Vladimír Polák

* 1937

Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Volhynian Czechs

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Anna Poláková, historical photography

MUDr. Anna Poláková

* 1933

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Anna Poláková in 1944

Anna Poláková

* 1930

Bata school Graduate, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jana Poláková, Mělník, 1979

Mgr. Jana Poláková

* 1975

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

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