30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

30. 5. 1945-29. 10. 1946

Karel Mornstein Zierotin in 2013

Ing. Karel Mornstein-Zierotin

* 1939

A cultural celebrity

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

A contemporary portrait from the break of the 1960s and 1970s

Hartmut Moškoř

* 1929

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

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

Irena Mossler in 1956

Irena Mosslerová

* 1934

Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945

Anna Stöhrová (Moštková)

Anna Moštková

* 1937 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Memory of vanished settlements

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Jan K. Motejlek with his mother, Hitlerjugend behind them, 1939.

Jan Květoslav Motejlek

* 1925

Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2, Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Underage political prisoners

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Ivan Motýl during the Eye Direct recording, 2016

Ivan Motýl

* 1967

The underground, Journalist, Writer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

A portrait

Jaroslava Moudříková roz. Karbanová

* 1926 †︎ 2018

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising and 5 more anniversaries

Horst Moudrý (second left) in a family photograph from 1942. His father is sitting in front of him.

Horst Moudrý

* 1928 †︎ 2021

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat

Jan Moudrý (sitting on the chair in the very front) during World War II with some of his family members

Jan Moudrý

* 1938

Germany, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Karel Mráz, 2021

Karel Mráz

* 1940

Illegal border crossing, Farmer, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria

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