29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat

29. 9. 1938-30. 9. 1938

Anna Lakomá in her youth

Anna Lakomá

* 1932

The relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Drahomír Langer in the Auxiliary Technical Battalions

Drahomír Langer

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), The relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

At the time of total deployment, Tailfingen, Germany, 1944

Jaroslav Langer

* 1924

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Forced labour during the WW2, The relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Václav Langer in the PTP

Václav Langer

* 1929

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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 and 5 more anniversaries

Vincenc Langer, 1952

Vincenc Langer

* 1934 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Lederer, a portrait

František Lederer

* 1930 †︎ 2018

Holocaust, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz

Foto od O. Leisky in 1945 in Prague

Otakar Leiský

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Writer, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2 and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 6 more anniversaries

633-portrait_former.jpg (historic)

Josef Lesák

* 1920 †︎ 2009

Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Sokol

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 11 more anniversaries

A photograph from her wedding, 1950

Eliška Leščinská

* 1925

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Josef Lesný, picture from military ID

Josef Lesný

* 1911 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Holocaust, Red Army soldier, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW, Hungary

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

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