Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Stephen Gaertner upon arrival in California, 1966

Stephen Gaertner

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Gaik Ryszard, Wroclaw, 2021

Ryszard Gaik

* 1936

Poland, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Victim of forced relocation, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands) and 1 more categories

1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands" , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Antonín Gajda

* 1925 †︎ unknown

Forced labour during the WW2, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 2 more anniversaries

Ing. Miloslav Gajdorus

* 1942

Déclassé, Politician, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans), 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s and 2 more anniversaries

Anton Gajdošík - photo from criminal military service (1952)

Anton Gajdošík

* 1933

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války and 2 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Amálie Gajdošíková as a child

Amálie Gajdošíková

* 1940

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Sláva Gajdošíková (Novotná)

Sláva Gajdošíková

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 1936 - 1938 - Great Terror in the USSR, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

the witness in 1952

Bohumila Gajdůšková

* 1934

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of 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

Gajova orez.jpg (historic)

Erika Gajová

* 1931 †︎ 2018

German minority in Poland after 1945, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands" , 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands

Witness Jarmila Gajová in the Memory of Nations studio in 2023

Jarmila Gajová

* 1937

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

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