Witnesses starting with letter S

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Jaroslava Svobodová, roz. Smutná

* 1915 †︎ unknown

People helping Jews during WWII, Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Milena Svorová in 2022 during filming for Memory of Nations

Mgr. Milena Svorová

* 1926 †︎ 2025

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Forced labour during the WW2, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Relative of a political prisoner

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Vítězslav Svozil at the national team training in 1954

PaedDr. Vítězslav Svozil

* 1933

Relative of a political prisoner, The Sportsmen

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Magdalena Swinkelsová, 1946

Magdalena Swinkelsová, roz. Hackerová

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Holocaust, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Karel Syka in the 1970's

Mgr. Karel Syka

* 1949 †︎ 2022

Art and censorship, Artists, A cultural celebrity

16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Jan Sýkora in the army in Bratislava, 1955

Jan Sýkora

* 1935

National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

J. Sýkora

Jiří Sýkora

* 1939 †︎ 2025

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jiří Sýkora (1980s)

Jiří Sýkora

* 1954

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Games of the XXIII Olympiad

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Josef Sýkora

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), A cultural celebrity

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Petr Sýkora in the 1980s

Bachelor Petr Sýkora

* 1966

Member of an Illegal Church, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 26.8. 1980 Solidarity strike in Wroclaw , 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

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