Witnesses starting with letter R

Erwin Rieger.jpg (historic)

Erwin Rieger

* 1930 †︎ 2014

Sudeten Germans, Memory of vanished settlements

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Margaret Riegerová

Margareta Riegerová

* 1931 †︎ 2016

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Memory of vanished settlements

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Gisela Rieseder as a child, ca. 1945

Gisela Rieseder

* 1940

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Riesel Petr - s maminkou Irenou, 50. léta.jpg (historic)

MUDr. Petr Riesel

* 1933 †︎ 2022

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Israel/Palestine, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans)

navigátor.jpg (historic)

Miroslav Riessner

* 1928 †︎ 2018

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

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

Soldier in the Border Guard - 1966

Tomáš Rimpel

* 1946 †︎ 2024

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Border Guards, 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

Markus Rindt with instrument

Markus Rindt

* 1967

Germany, Witness of local events from the Communist era, East German Refugee, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

Ivan Ringel with tiger Džespa

Ivan Ringel

* 1947

Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

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

Otto Rinke Jr in the military mid 1960s

Ing. Otto Rinke

* 1943 †︎ 2020

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

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

Jana Rinkeová in 1969

Mgr. Jana Rinkeová

* 1946

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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