Witnesses starting with letter A

Yris Tamara Aguilera Pérez during the recording, Miami, 2017

Yris Tamara Aguilera Peréz

* 1975

Cuba, Dissident, Cuban dissident, The relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel and 1 more categories

Stephen Akerman

Stephen Akerman

* 1919 †︎ unknown

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

witness Helena Aková as a young girl

Helena Aková

* 1932 †︎ 2023

Holocaust, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Larisa Alaverdyan as an ombudsperson

Larisa Alaverdyan Լարիսա Ալավերդյանի

* 1943

Human Rights Defender, Armenia

First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Álvaro Alba during the recording in Miami, 2018

Álvaro Alba

* 1963

Cuba, Dissident, Cuban dissident

Urban Albert

Urban Albert

* 1929

National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Hungarian from Transylvania, Repatriated

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

Walter Vincenc Albert on a contemporary photograph

Walter Vincenc Albert

* 1926

People helping Jews during WWII, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Zdeněk Albert

Zdeněk Albert

* 1927

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced labour during the WW2, The relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 3 more anniversaries

Pedro Albert Sánchez

* 1956

Cuba, Cuban dissident

Portrait photo of Anita taken in Klingenthal at the beginning of 1950s

Anita Alblová

* 1936

Emigrant, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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