Before the Fall of Iron Curtain 1946–1949 | Memory of Nations

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Mikuláš, a soldier, in the Red Army uniform, 1945.

Mikuláš Bröder

* 1928 †︎ 2022

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 24.9.1945 - Pogrom in Topoľčany

Graduation photo Květoslava Axmanova (Bartoňová)

Květoslava Bartoňová

* 1928 †︎ 2017

Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 4 more anniversaries

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Josef Lesák

* 1920 †︎ 2009

Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Sokol

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 11 more anniversaries

The first day in school (1941)

Walter Sitte

* 1935

A secret police collaborator, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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 and 1 more anniversaries

Ondřej Rácz

Ondřej Rácz

* 1928 †︎ 2013

National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

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

Ignác Žerníček

Ignác Žerníček

* 1924 †︎ 2020

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Jaroslav Adámek as a train driver

Jaroslav Adámek

* 1953

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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Štěpán Benda, 1957

Ing. Štěpán Benda

* 1940

Relatives of important personalities, A secret police agent, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Albert Iser wearing a bus driver's uniform, 1970s

Albert Iser

* 1946

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Petr Štěpánek in 1976

Ing. Petr Štěpánek

* 1950

Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Environmentalist

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Royal Air Force, 1944

Benjamin Abeles

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Holocaust, National minorities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force, Veteran of WW2, western front and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Adolf Absolon (1958)

RNDr., CSc. Adolf Absolon

* 1937

Boy Scouts, Scientist, Artists, A cultural celebrity, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 4 more anniversaries

Ervín Adam

M.D.Ph.D. MD. Ph.D. Ervín Adam

* 1922 †︎ 2024

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Scientist and 2 more categories

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1941, August 27-28 - Mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi, Death marches 1944-1945 and 6 more anniversaries

Jefstavij Oleksijovyč Adamčuk in the Soviet Armed Forces (in the middle), 1956

Jefstavij Oleksijovyč Adamčuk

* 1937

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

1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Ukraine in 1986–1991, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Marija Arsenivna Adamčuk, a portrait

Oleksandra Arsenivna Adamčuk

* 1937

Political prisoner in WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukraine

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

the witness Ivan Adam as a soldier in the basic military service

Ivan Adame

* 1943 †︎ 2021

Anti-communist rebel, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 4 more anniversaries

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