Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

Nazism

František Matějovský

* 1925 †︎ unknown

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, Holocaust, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2 and 9 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Helmut Meewes as a boy in Berlin

Helmut Meewes

* 1929

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Underage political prisoners, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 3 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Death marches 1944-1945

Jan Meixner during the filming on 6 August 2020 in Staré Hobzí

Jan Meixner

* 1925

Sudeten Germans, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Wehrmacht soldier, Germany

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Julie Michálková

Julie Michálková

* 1933

Bata school Graduate, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal 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

Karol Mudrák

* 1924 †︎ unknown

Forced labour during the WW2, The Partisan, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

navrat - unirmora.jpg (historic)

Pavel Návrat

* 1921 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Wehrmacht soldier, Sanitary worker during the World War 2 and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Zdeněk Neruda

Colonel (ret.) Zdeněk Neruda

* 1920 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Colonel Urban Ocilka

* 1919 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

Jan Perl

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Jan Perl

* 1922 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria

František Pollak at the end of the war

František Pollak

* 1931

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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