Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Period photo of the witness

Ing. Miloš Panýr

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Forced labour during the WW2, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Rudolf Papík at the army, 1957

Rudolf Papík

* 1935

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Portrait photograph of Marie Papoušková, 1957

Marie Papoušková

* 1930

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

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Jiří Parduba, (1923-2017)

Jiří Parduba

* 1923 †︎ 2017

Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 5 more anniversaries

Hana Pardubová

Hana Pardubová

* 1928 †︎ 2024

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

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Josef Parlesák in the 1950s

Ing. Josef Parlesák

* 1936

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

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, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

Josef Parpel

* 1924 †︎ 2009

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Repatriated and 7 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

At the scooter race, he was first then; Liberec, 1947

Private (ret.) Jaromír Pasecký

* 1938

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Anton Pasternák

* 1948

Holocaust, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Graduation photographs by Jaroslav Pátek, Pardubice, 1956

Mgr. Jaroslav Pátek

* 1938 †︎ 2024

Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Boy Scouts

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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

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