Witnesses starting with letter R

With guerrilla badge

Ján Rišian

* 1928 †︎ 2023

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, The Partisan

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Ritoša (Grubić) Sonja

Sonja Ritoša (Grubić)

* 1933

Croatia, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Annery Rivera Velasco, Madrid, 2025

Annery Rivera Velasco

* 1987

Cuban Exile, Cuban Independent Journalist, Victim of Homophobia in Cuba, Cuba, Memory of Our Cuban Neighbours

Jan Rob SDB 17

Ing. Jan Rob

* 1914 †︎ 2018

Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) and 1 more categories

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Aleksandre Robakidze

Aleksandre Robakidze

* 1913 †︎ 1994

Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Georgia

Bohumil Robeš at the age of 18 years

Bohumil Robeš

* 1930 †︎ 2019

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel, Art and censorship

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

Antonie Robová

Antonie Robová

* 1932

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vladimiro Roca during the recording in Cuba, 2018

Vladimiro Roca Antúnez

* 1942

Cuba, Dissident, Cuban Dissident, Memories about Fidel Castro, The Homeland Belongs to Us All (1997) and 2 more categories

Cuba after 1959, Cuba before 1959, Triumph of the Revolution (Cuba)

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Prof. Ing., CSc. Jan Roček

* 1924

Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945

Jiří Roček after release from prison

Jiří Roček

* 1924 †︎ unknown

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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