Witnesses starting with letter W

Edith Weitzenová (roz. Nettlová)

Edith Weitzenová (roz. Nettlová)

* 1924 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, western front, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, National minorities, Holocaust and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain and 2 more anniversaries

Viktor Wellemín

Private First Class (ret.) Viktor Wellemín

* 1923 †︎ 2020

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, National minorities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, Middle East and 1 more categories

12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Witness - Ladislav Welward

Ladislav Welward

* 1936

Holocaust, Hidden people, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

María C. Werlau

María C. Werlau

* 1959

Cuba, Emigrant, Cuban Dissident, 26th of July Movement, Cuban Exile

Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba after 1959, Cuba before 1959, Dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

Anna Wernardová, 1955

Anna Wernardová

* 1936

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

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Ing. Pavel Werner

* 1932 †︎ 2017

A secret police collaborator, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

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

Current photograph of Peter Werner from the recording, number one.

Peter Werner

* 1948

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Vlasta Wernerová, née Vyleťalová

Vlasta Wernerová

* 1943

Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial

Sylva Wernhartová with friends from Ladislav Ševčík's Folk Dance Ensemble in Ostrava, 1970s.

Sylva Wernhartová

* 1939

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

William West

William West

* 1919

Emigrant, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

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