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Ing. Zdeněk Pošusta

* 1939 †︎ 2025

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Hidden people

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Mária Potočná

* 1954

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 10 more anniversaries

Jarmila Potomáková in 2020

Jarmila Potomáková

* 1933

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Rudolf Potsch in the national jersey in 1958

Rudolf Potsch

* 1937

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain, Border Guards

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

Eva Potůčková, 40s after the war

Eva Potůčková

* 1927

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

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 3 more anniversaries

Jiří Pötzl in 1942 in Cheb

Jiří Pötzl

* 1936

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans, 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, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Julie Poulíková around 1980

Julie Poulíková

* 1939

National minorities, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Josefa Povolná at the age of 18 in 1942

Josefa Povolná

* 1924

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Malý Jindřich Prach with his mother

Jindřich Prach

* 1933 †︎ 2023

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Emil Přádný getting off after his last flight, 30 June 1997

Ing. Emil Přádný

* 1937

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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