Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Inge Richtrová, 1946

Inge Richtrová

* 1939

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Edeltraud Riedel / around 1945

Edeltraud Ríedelová

* 1929

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Gisela Rieseder as a child, ca. 1945

Gisela Rieseder

* 1940

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Miroslav Riessner

* 1928 †︎ 2018

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

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

Karel Říha

* 1936

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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Karel Říha during recording for Stories of Our Neighbours, Holice, 2023

Karel Říha

* 1941

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

Otto Rinke Jr in the military mid 1960s

Ing. Otto Rinke

* 1943 †︎ 2020

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Františka Řmotová, née Krátká, as a schoolgirl

Františka Řmotová

* 1929

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Antonie Robová

Antonie Robová

* 1932

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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Prof. Ing., CSc. Jan Roček

* 1924

Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945

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