Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Fake wedding photo of Karel Nerad and Eva Reck taken in Czechoslovakia two years after their wedding in 1960

Karel Nerad

* 1933

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, Ústecký masakr (31. 7. 1945)

Věra Nerušilová in 1980s

Věra Nerušilová

* 1935

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Graduation photograph, May 1958

Stanislav Nesvadba

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Emilie Nesvadbová - 2017

Emilie Nesvadbová

* 1935

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Relative of a political prisoner, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín

Olha Antonovna Nesvizha

Olha Antonovna Nesvizha

* 1926

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, People helping Jews during WWII, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Structures of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (radio operators, partisans, etc.) and 4 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950 and 2 more anniversaries

Josef Netopil in 2019

Josef Netopil

* 1941 †︎ 2023

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Netrvalová Slávka as a young girl

Slávka Netrvalová

* 1925 †︎ 2025

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Alfred Neudörfer in the Memory of Nation studio

Alfred Neudörfer

* 1947

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

As a sixteen year old

Ing. Klement Neugebauer

* 1937

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Dieter Neumann, latter 1940s

Dieter Neumann

* 1944 †︎ 2025

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, Holocaust, National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans and 3 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

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