1940 - The Battle of France

1940

as a child

Professor MUDr., DrSc. Karel Lewit

* 1916 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, western front, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Jiří Louda

Colonel (ret.) Jiří Louda

* 1920 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), A cultural celebrity and 3 more categories

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 6 more anniversaries

lukasova_frantiska_portret_195-.jpg (historic)

Františka Lukášová

* 1931

Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1940 - The Battle of France

Karel Macháček

* 1916 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Velimir Macharáček in India

Velimír Macharáček

* 1915 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

1940 - The Battle of France, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

1943 with code name Toman

Colonel (ret.) Vladimír Maděra

* 1917 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant and 2 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Luisa Matlová (1946)

Luisa Matlová, roz. Štýrová

* 1916 †︎ 2020

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Relatives of important personalities, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Eva Šašecí, married Melmuková, as a vicar in 1956

PhDr. Eva Melmuková

* 1932 †︎ 2022

Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Historian, Non-Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989 and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH and 7 more anniversaries

Milan Nechvátal

Major Milan Nechvátal

* 1921 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, western front, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Emigrant, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1940 - The Battle of France

Vladimír Nekvasil

* 1944

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, International Brigadiers, The Partisan

1940 - The Battle of France, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain

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