Witnesses starting with letter V

Pavel Vinkler

* 1962

Witness of local events from the Communist era

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Anna Vinterová in 1961

Mgr. Anna Vinterová

* 1943

Illegal border crossing, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Border Guards, Industrial settler in border region in 60' and 4 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Working at the Hamr I mine around 1981

Pavel Virág

* 1950

National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Michal Virák in 2022

Michal Virák

* 1948

Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Kumar Vishwanathan / Ostrava 2018

Kumar Vishwanathan

* 1963

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Vjačeslav Viskočil when serving in the Red Army

Lieutenant (ret.) Vjačeslav Viskočil

* 1927 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier, Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Jaroslav Višněvský (Chudoba) with his class as a Czech teacher (detail)

Boris Višněvský

* 1937

Victim of Nazi persecution in Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Volhynian Czechs

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Marian Visternicean during two-year basic military service in Odessa, 1985

Marian Visternicean

* 1966

Soldier of the Soviet Army, Artists, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Moldova

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1979 - 1989 - Sovětská invaze do Afghánistánu, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 2. 3. - 21. 7. 1992 - Konflikt v Podněstří

František Vít (en)

František Vít

* 1943

Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Josef Vít

Josef Vít

* 1942

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

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 1952 Terror Náchod

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