Witnesses starting with letter W

Reinhold Wornowski

* 1939

German minority in Poland after 1945

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Božena Wortnerová in costume, turn of the 1940s and 1950s

Božena Wortnerová

* 1935

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Matthias Wraneschitz

Matthias Wraneschitz

* 1927

National minorities, Moravian Croats

Wretzl orez.jpg (historic)

Ing. František Wretzl

* 1919 †︎ 2013

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Boy Scouts, Legio Angelica (scouts)

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Rafaela Wróblewska

Rafaela Wróblewska

* 1923

Victim of forced relocation, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Ukraine

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine

Henryk Wrona during the interview in May 2021

Colonel Henryk Wrona

* 1945

Poland, People's Army of Poland soldier, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Elżbieta Wrzosek

Elżbieta Wrzosek

* 1930

Poland, People helping Jews during WWII, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956

Petr Wurm in 2017

Petr Wurm

* 1936

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia

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

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