Witnesses starting with letter R

Evženie Ružbatská po válce.JPG (historic)

Evženie Ružbatská

* 1923 †︎ 2017

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Jevgenie Ružečko

Jevgenie Ružečko

* 1926

Russia, Czech minority in the former USSR, Forced labour during the WW2

Karel Růžek in 2013

Karel Růžek

* 1930

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Art and censorship

ruhova dobovy orez.jpg (historic)

Ing., Arch. Jarmila Růzhová, roz. Janáčková

* 1937 †︎ unknown

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Arnošt Růžička

* 1951

Déclassé, Sudeten Germans

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 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, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation and 1 more anniversaries

Family picture - the Růžička family, late 1940s

Čeněk Růžička

* 1946 †︎ 2022

Holocaust, National minorities, Gypsies / Roma

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Jan Růžička

* 1926 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Wehrmacht soldier and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Battle of the Bulge

Jiří Růžička in 2020

Jiří Růžička

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), 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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Jiří Růžička in 2023

Mgr. Jiří Růžička

* 1948

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Politician

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Jiří Růžička at graduation, 1971

Doc. PhDr. Jiří Růžička Ph.D.

* 1943

The underground, University professor, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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