Witnesses starting with letter R

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

Luděk Rederer in front of the Elbe River Basin Company in 1984

Ing. Luděk Rederer

* 1955

Environmentalist, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ervín Reegen in 1948

Ervín Reegen

* 1935 †︎ 2022

Relative of a political prisoner, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Current photo

Pater Jozef Regec

* 1926

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, The Partisan, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

László Regéczy-Nagy after 1956

László Regéczy-Nagy

* 1925 †︎ 2021

Hungary, Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Political prisoner in the Kádár era, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Josef Regen

Josef Regen

* 1929

Moravian Croats, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation

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