Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

In the 1950s

Josef Stanko

* 1926

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Anna Staňková at secondary grammar school

Anna Staňková

* 1927 †︎ 2023

Member of Orel, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Anna Staňková at 18 years old, 1953

Anna Staňková

* 1935

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Halina Staňková in 1937

Halina Staňková

* 1936 †︎ 2024

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 5 more categories

23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Aloisie Scholzová (Stanzelová)

Aloisie Stanzelová

* 1932 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Dagmar Stará, before the war

Mgr. Dagmar Stará

* 1928

Historian, Holocaust, 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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Young Jaroslava Stará

Jaroslava Stará

* 1936 †︎ unknown

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Radio Free Europe, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Veselín Starčevič 1945

PhDr. Veselín Starčevič

* 1931 †︎ 2020

Historian, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, National minorities, The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Tito - Stalin split, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Portrait Marie Stárková, year 1954

Marie Stárková

* 1935

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

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, July 17 to 31 Process Buchal a spol., 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Drahomíra Starobová, 1960

Drahomíra Starobová

* 1931

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Witness of local events from the Communist era

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

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