Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

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

Miroslav Jiroš in his youth

Miloslav Jiroš

* 1924 †︎ 2024

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced labour during the WW2

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

František Jiroušek

František Jiroušek

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Jirosukova orez.jpg (historic)

Alena Jiroušková

* 1934

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Vladimír Jirout in 2018

Architect Vladimír Jirout

* 1932 †︎ 2018

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, A secret police collaborator, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

Danuška Jírová, a portrait

Danuška Jírová

* 1922

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, The Partisan, Political prisoner in WW2 and 7 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

The witness in her 40s

Růžena Jírová

* 1933

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

Jindřiška Jirsová in 2021

PaedDr. Jindřiška Jirsová

* 1933 †︎ 2025

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Border Guards, 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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 6 more anniversaries

Václav Jiterský on the 6th of June 2015

Václav Jiterský

* 1927 †︎ 2016

Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

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