8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

8. 5. 1945

Zdeňka Zavřelová, around 1935

Zdeňka Zavřelová

* 1922 †︎ 2022

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Josef Zawadský / 1961

Josef Zawadský

* 1941

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Photo after the arrival to New York in 1952

Professor, Dr. Vladimír Zbořílek

* 1924

Emigrant, Forced labour during the WW2, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

The witness around 2000

Vlasta Zdráhalová

* 1921

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

František Žebrák as a soldier of the Wehrmacht in 1944

František Žebrák

* 1926 †︎ 2021

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Wehrmacht soldier

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Květoslava Zelená at approximately twenty years old

Květoslava Zelená

* 1921

Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Antonín Zelenka

* 1927 †︎ 2021

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Myra Zelinková at the age of three years

Myra Zelinková

* 1938

Holocaust, Hidden people

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

The owner of the factory, Jaroslav Zeman, is pictured from the first half of the 1990s

Jaroslav Zeman

* 1959

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Adolf Zeman

* 1933

Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 4 more anniversaries

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