Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

First Holy Communion, 1950

Marie Vařáková

* 1942

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Alzbeta Vargova

Alžbeta Vargová

* 1929 †︎ 2021

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

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Marija Adamivna Vartoščuk, 1950, historical photography

Marija Adamivna Vartoščuk

* 1931

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Miroslav Váša, late 40s

Ing. Miroslav Váša

* 1938

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

A period photograph of Oldřich Vašák

Oldřich Vašák

* 1926

Forced labour during the WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Vašek, 2020, portrait 2

Jaroslav Vašek

* 1924 †︎ 2023

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

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

Tomislav Vašíček

* 1941

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans)

Jiřina Vašíčková fifteen years old

Jiřina Vašíčková

* 1922

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ivan Vasko

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Ivan Vasko

* 1928 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Red Army soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Slovak-Polish relations in years 1918 - 1945

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, The liberation of the city of Ostrava

Marie Vašková, the beginning of the 1960s

Marie Vašková

* 1941

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

The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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