Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

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Jiřina Jiráková

* 1926 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 1 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad and 3 more anniversaries

The newlywed Jiráneks, 24 June 1950

Vlasta Jiránková

* 1923

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

Bohuslav Jirásek before starting his military service (1956)

Bohuslav Jirásek

* 1937 †︎ 2022

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 1 more anniversaries

In the garden of the family house in Rychnov nad Kněžnou

Master of Fine Arts Jan Jirásek

* 1955

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Květa Jirásková at the age of seventeen - a year before graduation

Květa Jirásková

* 1939

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

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen

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RNDr. Rudolf Jiříček

* 1934

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jan Jiřička, 1957

Ing. Jan Jiřička

* 1938

Boy Scouts, Svědci Jehovovi, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Member of an Illegal Church

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Anna Jiříčková in 2022

Anna Jiříčková

* 1946

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Eva Jiřičná (1960s)

Professor Ing. arch. Eva Jiřičná

* 1939

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jaromíra Jirků in her youth

Jaromíra Jirků

* 1953

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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