Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Before military service (September of 1951)

Ján Križan

* 1929

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Růžena Křížková in 1943

Růžena Křížková

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Life along the Iron Curtain, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Marie Křížová in 1947

Marie Křížová

* 1926

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Marta Křížová as a child (second half of 1940s)

Marta Křížová

* 1939

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

AK 3_portret.jpg (historic)

Andrej Krob

* 1938

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 2 more categories

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 18 December 2011 Václav Havel died

Josef Kroc

* 1928 †︎ 2018

Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, Border Guards, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák and 1 more anniversaries

Doc. MUDr. Michal Kroó

* 1923 †︎ 2016

National minorities, Holocaust, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Hidden people, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW and 3 more categories

29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

Vladislav Krop

Vladislav Krop

* 1939

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Rudolf Kropík (1958), historical photography

Rudolf Kropík

* 1937 †︎ 2024

Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Lotte in her first ball gown, Sokolov, 1948

Lieselotte Kroppová

* 1930

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Déclassé, Memory of vanished settlements

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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