22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

22. 6. 1941

Japaridze Simon

Simon Japaridze

* 1921

Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 1940 - 1941 Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, 1941 - 1944 German occupation of the Baltic states

Emilie Jarmarová

Emílie Jarmarová

* 1923 †︎ 2011

Holocaust, National minorities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 2 more anniversaries

Lidija Jefremivna Jarostjuk, historical photography

Lidija Jefremivna Jarostjuk

* 1943

Forced labour during the WW2, The relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Ukraine

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Ukraine in 1986–1991

Václav Jedlička in Czechoslovak army

Václav Jedlička

* 1908 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 2 more anniversaries

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Jiřina Jiráková

* 1926 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 1 more categories

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad and 3 more anniversaries

Vasil Jovbak

Colonel (ret.) Vasil Jovbak

* 1923 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov and 2 more anniversaries

Jiri Kaderabek, historical photograph

staff sergeant (ret.) Jiří Kadeřábek

* 1926 †︎ 2024

Czech minority in the former USSR, Holocaust, National minorities, Repatriated, Participant in antifascist resistance and 5 more categories

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Władysław Karol

Władysław Karol

* 1926

Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), People's Army of Poland soldier, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poland

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland

Antonie Šimková (Kašparová)

Antonie Kašparová

* 1935

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, People helping Jews during WWII, Czech minority in the former USSR, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 6 more anniversaries

Portrét, konec 40. let

Jevdokie Kepková

* 1922

Emigrant, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Russia

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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