Witnesses starting with letter W

Portrait from the mid 1950s, Brno

Josef Wolf

* 1939

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jaroslava Wollerová in 2019

Jaroslava Wollerová

* 1947

Life along the Iron Curtain, Politician

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Marie Wollnerová, 2016

Marie Wollnerová

* 1936

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Maria Wolska as a schoolgirl, when her name was Maria Hauschke

Maria Wolska

* 1957

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, German minority in Poland after 1945

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Jiří Wonka

* 1950

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Charter 77 signatory, National minorities, The relative of a political prisoner, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Brygida Wornowska

* 1946

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

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

Reinhold Wornowski

* 1939

German minority in Poland after 1945

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

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

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