Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Věra Harrerová in a period photograph

Věra Harrerová

* 1927

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ladislav Hartman, 1949

PhDr. Ladislav Hartman

* 1930 †︎ 2022

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Cecílie Hartošová, late 1930s

Cecílie Hartošová

* 1929

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, Death marches 1944-1945

Maria Hartung, Plesná 2022

Maria Hartung

* 1936

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Anna Hasáková, graduation photograph, 1956

Anna Hasáková

* 1937

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Young soldier

Ján Haščák

* 1927

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

From border guard to transferrer

Josef Hasil

* 1924 †︎ 2019

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Czech community in the US and 13 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Ľubomír Hatala - photo from basic military service (1955)

Ľubomír Hatala

* 1931

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

Karel Hauschke, Tahiti, 1997

Karel Hauschke

* 1940

Czech Minority in Klodzko County (Poland), Poland, Germany, Apatrida - osoba bez státního občanství, Illegal border crossing and 3 more categories

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands" , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Pavel Hauzner

Pavel Hauzner

* 1936 †︎ 2022

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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