Witnesses starting with letter W

Youth

Eva Warausová

* 1932

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Wawrečka (Vavrečka) František

Colonel (ret.) František Wawrečka (Vavrečka)

* 1920 †︎ 2012

Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Veteran of WW2, western front

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Josef Wawrzacz / 1978

Josef Wawrzacz

* 1956

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Czesława Wałkiewicz

Czesława Wałkiewicz

* 1934

Poland, Border Guards, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands)

1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Ernst Weber with a glass mould in January 2019

Ernst Weber

* 1930

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

1944

Ing. Petr Weber

* 1942

National minorities, Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Weberová Věra

Věra Weberová

* 1934

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden

Klaus Wedemann

Klaus Wedemann

* 1944

Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Erich Weigel / around 1940

Ing. Erich Weigel

* 1929

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jaroslav Weigel

Jaroslav Weigel

* 1931 †︎ 2019

The Journalist, Relatives of important personalities, Boy Scouts, Art and censorship, Artists and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

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