8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo

8. 3. 1943

The first combat action of the 1st Czechoslovak independent field battalion in the USSR.

Young Rozman Michal before escape to the USSR

Michal Rozman

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo

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Colonel Bedřich Seliger

* 1920 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, National minorities, Holocaust

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 3 more anniversaries

Demeter Senický, Levoča 1945

Demeter Senický

* 1917 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier

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, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov and 2 more anniversaries

Gustav Singer in 1945

Gustav Singer

* 1914 †︎ 2015

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

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Miroslav Šmoldas

colonel general Miroslav Šmoldas

* 1917 †︎ 2003

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

Vasil Sofilkanič

Vasil Sofilkanič

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Political prisoner in WW2, A warder in a communist prison, National minorities and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 6 more anniversaries

Evžen Švihlík at the age of sixteen.

Evžen Švihlík

* 1930

Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Red Army soldier, Volhynian Czechs, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 5. 7. 1943 - 5. 8. 1943 - Battle of Kursk, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Leopold Vojtěchovský

Colonel (ret.) Leopold Vojtěchovský

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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 and 1 more anniversaries

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Vlasta Vyhnánková

* 1921 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of 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, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo and 2 more anniversaries

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