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Smolkova portret.jpg (historic)

Marieta Šmolková

* 1921 †︎ 2022

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Bride Alice Šmotková

Alice Šmotková, roz. Molíková

* 1933

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty and 2 more anniversaries

Anna Smržová, around 1944

Anna Smržová

* 1927

Czech Minority in Klodzko County (Poland), National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, German minority in Poland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Jiří Šnajdr.JPG (historic)

Jiří Šnajdr

* 1933 †︎ 2021

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Wedding photo, 1958

Marie Snášelová

* 1930

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

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, The liberation of the city of Ostrava

Marie Sněhotová, ca.1990

Marie Sněhotová

* 1938

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

The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, July 17 to 31 Process Buchal a spol., 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miroslav Šnejdar, ca. 1935

Miroslav Šnejdar

* 1928

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Josef Šnejdar, 2018

doc. Ing.,CSc. Josef Šnejdar

* 1926 †︎ 2021

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Period photograph of Ladislav Snídal, 1990s

Colonel (ret.) Ladislav Snídal

* 1914 †︎ 2001

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Veteran of WW2, western front

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 6. 4. - 17. 4. 1941 Dubnová válka (Německý útok na Jugoslávii)

Witness at the age of 8

Jozef Šnirc

* 1934

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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