Witnesses starting with letter S

František Svoboda in 1949

František Svoboda

* 1930 †︎ 2022

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Colonel (ret.) Gustav Svoboda

* 1917 †︎ 2006

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Jan Svoboda, 1999

Jan Svoboda

* 1977

War veteran after 1989

1992 - 1995 Bosnian War, 22. 4. 1996. - 10. 6. 1999. Kosovská válka , 24. 3. – 10. 6. 1999 - NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

Jan Svoboda with grandmother Božena, 1945

Jan Svoboda

* 1945

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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin and 1 more anniversaries

Jan Svoboda

Jan Svoboda

* 1918

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

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Jaroslav Svoboda

* 1922 †︎ unknown

Forced labour during the WW2

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Jaroslav Svoboda

Jaroslav Svoboda

* 1938 †︎ 2024

Sokol

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

Jiří Svoboda, 2025

Prof. Jiří Svoboda

* 1945

Communist official, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

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

Jiří Svoboda, 2014

Jiří Svoboda

* 1936

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Graduation photoboard, 1970

Ing. Jiří Svoboda

* 1951

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

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