Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Josef Švancara in 2004

Josef Švancara

* 1934 †︎ 2025

Holocaust, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

Period portrait of Pavel Švanda

Professor Pavel Švanda

* 1936

Journalist, Relative of a political prisoner, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Ludmila Švandová, graduation photo, 1954

Ludmila Švandová

* 1935

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Otakar doing his military service, , Lom near Most, 1952

Otakar Švarc

* 1931 †︎ 2020

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

18. 4. 1945 - Zákřovský masakr

During his military service as a commander of a reconnaissance unit with his soldiers in Strašice, he served there with the 1st Tank Regiment, 1984

Master Sergeant (ret.) Pavel Svárovský

* 1961

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Wehrmacht soldier

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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 1 more anniversaries

Danuše Svatoňová in 2025

Danuše Svatoňová

* 1929

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

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

1961 Jaroslava Brixí

Jaroslava Svatošová roz. Brixí

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Ludmila Švecová, current photography

Ludmila Švecová

* 1939

Victim of forced relocation, Political prisoner in WW2, Radio Free Europe, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral and 2 more anniversaries

Zdeněk Švéda

Zdeněk Švéda

* 1934

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Naděžda Švédová in 1955

Ing. Naděžda Švédová

* 1931

People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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