13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden

13. 2. 1945-15. 2. 1945

Ludmila Němcová

* 1936

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Anton Pasternák

* 1948

Holocaust, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Zbyněk Pišťák while in the air force - on leave in Mukačevo, 1937

Zbyněk Pišťák

* 1915 †︎ 2014

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Dieter Piwernetz in Weidenberg, 2019

Dieter Piwernetz

* 1938

Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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

Pukowiec Josef

Josef Pukowiec

* 1929

Forced labour during the WW2, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Memory of vanished settlements

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, July 7, 1961 - fire in the mine Dukla

contemporary photo

MUDr. Cyril Ruth

* 1935

Déclassé

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden

Josef Salomonovic as a child, Ostrava, 1945

Josef Salomonovič

* 1938

Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 3 more anniversaries

Michal Salomonovič / Ostrava / 1945

Ing. Michal Salomonovič

* 1933 †︎ 2019

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945 and 4 more anniversaries

Otakar Seidl

* 1947

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

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