Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Photo from youth, around 1959

Jaroslav Pleva

* 1939

Hidden people, Victim of forced relocation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

František Plhoň, 2018

MUDr. František Plhoň

* 1941

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ludmila Plhoňová in the age of 16

Ludmila Plhoňová

* 1934

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

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Witness Josef Plíhal in military uniform, with his then-partner Věra, 1960s

Josef Plíhal

* 1946

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Plíšek's wedding photo from 1961

Prom. ped. Jaroslav Plíšek

* 1937

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

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

The witness, portrait, 1957

Růžena Plíšková

* 1927

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, National minorities, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 3 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

Oldrich Plíva, 1964

Oldřich Plíva

* 1946

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

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

Anna Plobner

Anna Plobner

* 1932

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria

Erhard Pluške, 1950s

Erhard Pluške

* 1933

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

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

Jindřich Pochožaj, historical photography

Jindřich Pochožaj

* 1933

Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 2 more anniversaries

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