Witnesses starting with letter R

Family picture - the Růžička family, late 1940s

Čeněk Růžička

* 1946 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

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

Young Josef Růžička

Josef Růžička

* 1917

Bata school Graduate, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Kamil Růžička

Kamil Růžička

* 1919 †︎ 2013

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Karel Růžičkq

Karel Růžička

* 1924 †︎ unknown

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Karel Růžička as a young man

Karel Růžička

* 1933

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Leonid Václavovič Růžička

Leonid Václavovič Růžička

* 1927 †︎ 2014

National minorities, Czech minority in the former USSR

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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