Witnesses starting with letter R

raulim_mladi.jpg (historic)

Otakar Raulím

* 1924 †︎ 2011

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR)

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Hubert Rauw as postman

Hubert Rauw

* 1927 †︎ 2020

Veteran of WW2, western front, Belgium

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Miloš Raveane

* 1924

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Bata school Graduate

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Tomislav Ravnić

Tomislav Ravnić

* 1929

Croatia, The Partisan

Viktor Ráža

Lieutenant Viktor Ráža

* 1925 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

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

Jiří Razskazov – a graduation photo, 1976

Jiří Razskazov

* 1957

Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Humberto Eladio Real Suárez

Humberto Eladio Real Suárez

* 1968

Cuba, Cuban Dissident, Political prisoner

Archival photo

René Rechnitz

* 1921

National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, 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, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 Arab–Israeli War

authentic photo

Marie Rechtigová

* 1927

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Herbert Reckziegel, Wels, 2023

Herbert Reckziegel

* 1934

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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