Witnesses starting with letter Z

Jan Zima in a forestry uniform while studying at a forestry school (1960s)

Jan Zima

* 1946

Dissident, Anti-communist rebel, Charter 77 signatory, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

Jaroslav Zíma as the trumpet player with the West-Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, 1973

Mgr. Jaroslav Zíma

* 1938

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Zdislav Zima / around the year 1944

Zdislav Zima

* 1925 †︎ 2021

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Margita Zimanová

Margita Zimanová

* 1942

Relative of a political prisoner, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Eduard Zimmel, after the war

Eduard Zimmel

* 1926 †︎ 2019

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in WW2 and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 4 more anniversaries

Climbing Falkenstein and Sokol, with friends and future wife, 1962

Klaus Zimmermann

* 1941

Life along the Iron Curtain, Germany, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Walter Zimmermann in 1945

Walter Zimmermann

* 1923 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, western front, A secret police agent, National minorities, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Werner Zimmermann

Werner Zimmermann

* 1935

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Sixteen-year-old Ilona Zimová, 1965

Ilona Zimová

* 1949

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

The Hercl family in the early 1950s, Miloslava is standing in the middle

Miloslava Zímová

* 1933 †︎ 2025

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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