GDR - outgoing passengers

Astrid Pilz in 2021

Astrid Pilz

* 1940

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall

Walter Pilz, Dresden, 2021

Walter Pilz

* 1932

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Dieter Piwernetz in Weidenberg, 2019

Dieter Piwernetz

* 1938

Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Miloslav Rálek on his favorite motorcycle in 1968

Miloslav Rálek

* 1948

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Relative of a political prisoner

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Kristýna Voráčová, nee Bauch

Kristýna Voráčová, rozená Bauch

* 1936

National minorities, GDR - outgoing passengers, Boy Scouts, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 4 more anniversaries

Ernst Weber with a glass mould in January 2019

Ernst Weber

* 1930

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

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

Rosa with stepmother (with hat)

Rosa Wohlfeld

* 1927 †︎ 2024

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Germany

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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