Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

01 - Milada Kovaříková - portrait 2016

Milada Kovaříková

* 1926 †︎ unknown

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Alena Kovářová

Alena Kovářová

* 1931

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Marie Kovářová in 1944

Marie Kovářová

* 1933

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, The topic of security forces before 1989

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Libuše Kovářová in a traditional costume

Libuše Kovářová

* 1922

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Naděžda Kovářová in 2023

Naděžda Kovářová

* 1936

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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

A witness as a Kostelec nursery school director

Zdeňka Kovářová

* 1935

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

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

Jarmila Kovářová

Jarmila Kovářová, roz. Švejdová

* 1930 †︎ 2024

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války and 3 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Jiří Kozel, around 1960

Ing. Jiří Kozel

* 1929

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Bohumil Kožela in the season 1965 -1966

Bohumil Kožela

* 1938

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 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

Lotte Kozová - 1941 - detail

Lotte Kozová

* 1925 †︎ 2020

National minorities, Holocaust, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Hidden people, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

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