1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

1941-1944

Sixteen-year-old Leonida before going to the labour camp

Leonida Dobšová

* 1926 †︎ 2018

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Ukraine

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Doležal (in front, on the horse) in Zdolbuniv, circa 1937-38

Zdeněk Doležal

* 1934 †︎ 2022

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 1 more anniversaries

Rostyslava Fedak (center), Khrystyna Rutar (left), Hanna Zaremba-Kosovych (right) at the Museum of the History of the Ukrainian Women's Movement (2020, Lviv)

Rostyslava Fedak (Teleha) Ростислава Федак (Телега)

* 1933 †︎ 2021

Ukraine, Holocaust, A victim of communist repressions in Halychyna

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

Jiří Fochler

Jiří Fochler

* 1924 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Marie Fousová, 15.4.2013

Marie Fousová

* 1913 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, People helping Jews during WWII, Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 4 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

Sláva Gajdošíková (Novotná)

Sláva Gajdošíková

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 1936 - 1938 - Great Terror in the USSR, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

hajek_bohumir_portret_1940.JPG (historic)

Bohumír Hájek

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Illegal border crossing

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

Jiřina Hajná, 1951

Jiřina Hajná

* 1929 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Bohumil Hajný at the army in Stara Boleslav, 1948

Bohumil Hajný

* 1925

Official in JZD, Communist official, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Václav Hajný

Václav Hajný

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), National minorities, Volhynian Czechs and 4 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

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