Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Jaroslava Blešová as a child

Jaroslava Blešová

* 1943

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

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 7 more anniversaries

Anthony Bloch at a young age

Anthony Bloch

* 1933

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Czech community in the US and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš and 1 more anniversaries

Karel Bluma, 2025

Karel Bluma

* 1937

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Sisters Jana (left) and Alexandra Šebelík in 1935

Jana Bobková

* 1926

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

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 1 more anniversaries

Hynek Bočan - director, filming of Private Whirlwind (Soukromá vichřice), 1960s

Hynek Bočan

* 1938

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

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 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 and 1 more anniversaries

In youth

Ľubomír Boďa

* 1932

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

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Stanislav Bodlák

Stanislav Bodlák

* 1924 †︎ 2017

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Military uniform

Václav Bodlák

* 1924 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Major (ret.) Alexander Bognár

* 1917

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Déclassé, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army) and 5 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord and 2 more anniversaries

The black baron Jiří Boháč in the Technical auxiliary battalion in 1953

Ing. Jiří Boháč

* 1932 †︎ 2024

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

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