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Stanislav Kostiha (middle) with his adoptive mother Blažena Kostihová (right) and his biological mother Hedvika Hanzelková, 1941

Stanislav Kostiha

* 1939

Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, Clergymen, Vicar without State agreement, Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Likvidace starého Mostu, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

František Kostner

František Kostner

* 1920 †︎ 2014

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, The Partisan, Sokol and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

After the war injury

ThDr. Daniel Kostsánszky

* 1929 †︎ 2020

Non-Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Jiřina Kotalíková as a young woman

Jiřina Kotalíková

* 1926

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

František Kotas during his military service

František Kotas

* 1937

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Kotešovec, September 2022, Eibenthal

Jan Kotešovec

* 1937

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Ludmila Kotlabová née Navrátilová

Ludmila Kotlabová

* 1932

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hidden people and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

On a walk at the military service, 1958

Ing. Vladimír Kotland

* 1934

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Young Miroslav Kotlas, turn of the 1940s and 1950s

Miroslav Kotlas

* 1933

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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

Jiří Kotlový in 1942

Jiří Kotlový

* 1927 †︎ 2024

Bata school Graduate, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced labour during the WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

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