Witnesses starting with letter W

Anežka Wilczeková. Frýdek-Místek, June 2021

Anežka Wilczeková

* 1924 †︎ 2022

Friars, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

Alžběta Wildová in the Giant Mountains in the late 1950s

Alžběta Wildová

* 1936

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Young Miroslav Wildung

Miroslav Wildung

* 1919

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia

Tadeusz Wilk, military service in the navy, 1966 - 1969

Tadeusz Wilk

* 1946

Poland, Relative of a political prisoner, People's Army of Poland soldier, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita

Helen Waldstein in 1940

Helen Wilkes

* 1936

Holocaust, Writer, A cultural celebrity

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat

Kateřina Willigová Frodlová in the 1960s

Kateřina Willigová Frodlová

* 1948

Homeland and Life, United Kingdom, Apatrida - osoba bez státního občanství, Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 3 more categories

17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Win Myint

* 1965

Burma/Myanmar

Felix Winkler after the war

Ing. Felix Winkler

* 1926

Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Miloš Winkler in a photo from his graduation board, 1969

RNDr. Miloš Winkler

* 1950

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Oskar Winkler

Ing. Oskar Winkler

* 1941

Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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