Witnesses starting with letter R

Randák Otakar

Otakar Randák

* 1926 †︎ 2019

People connected to the ČIN magazine (scouts), Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts and 5 more categories

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Witness at work in the mines, undated

Pavel Raniak

* 1928

The Partisan, Participant in the Slovak national uprising, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

ranofrej_bartolomej1.jpg (historic)

Bartoloměj Ranofrej

* 1914 †︎ 2003

Veteran of WW2, western front, Royal Air Force

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

Ludvík Rapan

Sergeant Ludvík Rapan

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Karel Raška during recording

prof. MUDr., DrSc. Karel Raška

* 1939

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US, Relatives of important personalities, Scientist

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Radmila Rasmussen

* 1965

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Miloš Rataj (a period photograph)

Miloš Rataj

* 1939

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Students who were for political reasons expelled from school

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Róbert Rátonyi

* 1938

Hungary, Holocaust

1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

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M.Eng. Jozef Rauch

* 1956

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

6.-13. 12. 1980 Operation Krkonoše

Václav Rauch with his parents and his older brother, 1924

Václav Rauch

* 1924 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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