Witnesses starting with letter S

Jaroslav Sodomek in 2023

Jaroslav Sodomek

* 1937

Volhynian Czechs, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Soe Hlaing

* 1952

Burma/Myanmar

Soe Myint

* 1953

Burma/Myanmar

Jana's photograph from the graduation board. 1959

Jana Soferová

* 1939

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Vasil Sofilkanič

Vasil Sofilkanič

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Political prisoner in WW2, A warder in a communist prison, National minorities and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 6 more anniversaries

Sojka Oldřich 1955

Oldřich Sojka

* 1944

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of forced relocation, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen

Eržika Sojková in 1967

Eržika Sojková

* 1949

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Young Růžena Sojková

Růžena Sojková

* 1932 †︎ 2020

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Svatava Sojková

Svatava Sojková

* 1928 †︎ 2021

Relative of a political prisoner

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jan Sokol in the 1959

Professor Jan Sokol

* 1936 †︎ 2021

Politician, Charter 77 signatory, A cultural celebrity

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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