Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Mikuláš, a soldier, in the Red Army uniform, 1945.

Mikuláš Bröder

* 1928 †︎ 2022

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 24.9.1945 - Pogrom in Topoľčany

Eva Bródyová

* 1959

Emigrant, Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII and 9 more categories

Armenian Genocide, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 and 13 more anniversaries

Zdenek Brom, on the left, with his family

Zdeněk Brom

* 1937

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Krista Brotánková, five years old

Mgr. Krista Brotánková

* 1934

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Miloslav Brouček (1935), historical photography

Ing. Miloslav Brouček

* 1935

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 3 more anniversaries

František Brouk as a guide for the travel agency Čedok in the 1980s

František Brouk

* 1938

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 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

Eustach Broulík, portrait, 1970s

Eustach Broulík

* 1936

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Radoslava Knápková (Brovjáková) - 1944

Radoslava Brovjáková

* 1926

Participant in antifascist resistance, Relative of a political prisoner, Hidden people, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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 5 more anniversaries

At the time of compulsory military service, 1953

Zdeněk Brož

* 1931

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

František Brož

František Brož

* 1939 †︎ unknown

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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