Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

A picture of Stanislav Hylmar-Pirát from his Scout member card

Private Stanislav Hylmar

* 1920 †︎ 2019

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan and 3 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák and 2 more anniversaries

Vlasta Hynčíková in the 1970s

Vlasta Hynčíková roz. Suchá

* 1928 †︎ 2016

Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války and 3 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

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Mgr. Miloš Hynek

* 1934

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Holocaust, Sanitary worker during the World War 2 and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Jaroslava Hynková - 1950

Jaroslava Hynková

* 1935

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, 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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 3 more anniversaries

Jaroslava Hýsková in 1960

Jaroslava Hýsková

* 1928

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Bořivoj Hytych before the Spartakiade in 1965

Bořivoj Hytych

* 1938

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Relative of a political prisoner

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

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Věra Idan

* 1926

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Israel/Palestine and 3 more categories

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 8. - 9. března 1944 - Hromadná vražda vězňů tzv. Terezínského rodinného táb, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945 and 1 more anniversaries

Broumov, 1946

Major (ret.) Jan Iljáš

* 1922 †︎ 2021

A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Helena Illnerová

Prof. RnDr., DrSc Helena Illnerová

* 1937

Boy Scouts, A cultural celebrity, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Frantisek Ingr, 1990

František Ingr

* 1949

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

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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