8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

8. 5. 1945

Wedding photograph of Ludmila Koštejnová, 1958

Ludmila Koštejnová

* 1935

Déclassé, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Life along the Iron Curtain

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, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 7 more anniversaries

Stanislav Kostiha (middle) with his adoptive mother Blažena Kostihová (right) and his biological mother Hedvika Hanzelková, 1941

Stanislav Kostiha

* 1939

Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, Clergymen, Vicar without State agreement, Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Likvidace starého Mostu, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

František Kostner

František Kostner

* 1920 †︎ 2014

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, The Partisan, Sokol and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Second Lieutenant (ret.) Ladislav Kostovič

* 1927 †︎ 2016

National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Repatriated, The relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance and 1 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

After the war injury

ThDr. Daniel Kostsánszky

* 1929 †︎ 2020

Non-Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

František Kotas during his military service

František Kotas

* 1937

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Kotlový in 1942

Jiří Kotlový

* 1927 †︎ 2024

Bata school Graduate, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Forced labour during the WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

Rosalie Koubová, 1950s

Rosalie Koubová

* 1932

Illegal border crossing, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Emílie Koudelová 26 years old

Emílie Koudelová

* 1926

National minorities, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence

A period photograph of the witness, Nymburk, 1962

Marie Koukalová

* 1940

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, The relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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