Austria

International

Contemporary witnesses from Austria

Franz Seidl, Olomouc, 2022

Franz Seidl

* 1934

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

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

Friedrich von Thun, 2023

Friedrich Thun-Hohenstein

* 1942

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Déclassé, Nobility, A cultural celebrity

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Johann Vater in 2020

Johann Vater

* 1930

Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer, Life along the Iron Curtain, Austria

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

Elfriede Weismann in Kaplice, 1930s

Elfriede Weismann

* 1935

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Ernest Zederbauer

* 1947

Writer, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain, Austria

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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