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Petr Jan Kalaš, Prague, 2024

Ing. Petr Jan Kalaš

* 1940

Diplomat, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

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

Jan Kalina (en)

Jan Kalina

* 1935

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 1 more anniversaries

Matěj Kalina in his youth, Šumice, 1960s

Matěj Kalina

* 1942

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

Witness Michal Kalina, 2023

Michal Kalina

* 1943

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 9 more anniversaries

Iryna Kalja, August 4, 2013

Iryna Kalja

* 1942

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Reemigration of Czechs and Slovaks from Romania to Czechoslovakia (1945 - 1949), Ukraine in 1990-s., 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 2 more anniversaries

Jaromír Kallista, 2022

Mgr. Jaromír Kallista

* 1939

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

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Věra Kalná roz. Ježková

* 1929 †︎ 2023

Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Memory of vanished settlements

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

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MUDr. Josef Kalný

* 1933 †︎ 2018

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

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Ludmila Kalousová

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Zlata Kalousová, 1946

Zlata Kalousová

* 1940

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

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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