Witnesses starting with letter U

susanna as a child

Susana Urbanová

* 1933 †︎ 2020

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Zora Kopacova (Urbanova) 1946

Zora Urbanová

* 1927

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Anna Urbášková, 1940

Anna Urbášková

* 1932

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Inge in 2016

Inge Urbassek

* 1933

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

As a school kid

Egon Urmann

* 1945

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Pedro Urruchurtu, 2025

Pedro Urruchurtu

* 1990

Venezuela, Dissident, Politician, University professor

Petr Uruba

Colonel (ret.) Petr Uruba

* 1916 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

In youth

Róbert Uškovitš

* 1928 †︎ 2023

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Marie Ustohalová

Marie Ustohalová

* unknown

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

The first self-made dumbbell. Beginning of weightlifting in 1957

Josef Utíkal

* 1941 †︎ 2026

The Sportsmen, 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

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