8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

8. 5. 1945

Steun Eduard

Eduard Steun

* 1946

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Border Guards, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

contemporary photo

Marie Stiborová roz. Slouková

* 1932 †︎ 2022

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Riding a motorbike

František Štilec

* 1928 †︎ 2021

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

At the time of her graduation from secondary school

Eva Štixová

* 1941

Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Stoiber (2021)

Jan Stoiber

* 1937

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Young L. Stoklasa

Ludvík Stoklasa

* 1921 †︎ 2022

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Karel Stoll during graduation ceremony, 1957

Ing., CSc First Lieutenant Karel Stoll

* 1933

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Boy Scouts, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 1 more anniversaries

Olga Šťovíčková in 1963

Olga Šťovíčková

* 1925 †︎ 2024

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

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Blažena Strachotová in Slavičín in 1927

Blažena Strachotová

* 1917

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 1 more anniversaries

František Straka (2015)

František Straka

* 1950

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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