Witnesses starting with letter S

Contemporary photo

Jan Simandl

* 1930

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Gerhard Simchen, 2024

Gerhard Simchen

* 1945

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Monika Simchen, Zittau, 2024

Monika Simchen

* 1949

Germany, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Stefanos Simichanidis-1951

Stefanos Simichanidis

* 1945

National minorities, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia, Greece

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

Otokar Simm with his parents Max and Emily in the Peace celebration near Jablonec dam in 1957

Otokar Simm

* 1946

Writer, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Blažena Simotová, 10.5.2009

Blažena Simotová

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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Major (ret.) Gerhard Singer

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster

Gustav Singer in 1945

Gustav Singer

* 1914 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Jana Singerová in 1994

Jana Singerová

* 1932

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Industrial settler in border region in 60', Sokol

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial and 1 more anniversaries

Ewa Sipos

* 1974

The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

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