Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Jarmila Chovancová, 1950s

Jarmila Chovancová

* 1928

Member of Orel, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945) and 3 more categories

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories and 3 more anniversaries

Miloslav Chráska as a graduate of the Electrical Engineering School, 1960

Miloslav Chráska

* 1941

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Jaromír Chrástek in 1949, graduation photo

Jaromír Chrástek

* 1929

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

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

Josef Chrástka in 1959 when first on duty as an engine driver, Volary

Josef Chrástka

* 1940

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Helena Chrástková at the end of the 1950s

Helena Chrástková

* 1939

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

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

Květoslava Chřibková, school-leaving photo, 1956

Květoslava Chřibková

* 1938

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

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 4 more anniversaries

Erhard Chrobák / around year 1948

Erhard Chrobák

* 1928 †︎ 2024

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Witness at the age of 2, 1937

Božena Chrobáková

* 1935

People helping Jews during WWII, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR

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Stanislav Chromčák

* 1932

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava

Věra Chromcová

Věra Chromcová

* 1936

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

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