Witnesses starting with letter A

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

Miriam Abeles

Miriam Abeles

* 1932

National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Aram Abrahamyan

Aram Abrahamyan Արամ Աբրահամյան

* 1960

Armenia, The Journalist

Perestroika, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

František Mikloško, then chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, and Pavol Abrhan (1990)

Ing. Pavol Abrhan

* 1959

Member of an Illegal Church, Dissident, Politician, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava and 4 more anniversaries

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

Josef Achrer, 1961

Josef Achrer

* 1951

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

young Boleslava Achrerová

Boleslava Achrerová

* 1922

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, The relative of a political prisoner

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

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

Josef Adam in 2023

Josef Adam

* 1932

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), National minorities, Déclassé and 1 more categories

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Death marches 1944-1945, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat

Emil Adamčík

Emil Adamčík

* 1938

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

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