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Contemporary witnesses from Germany

Hermann Wallisch in 2023

Hermann Wallisch

* 1941

Germany, Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

Jan Wallstein at the age of fourteen

Jan Wallstein

* 1942

National minorities, German minority in Poland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Sudeten Germans and 3 more categories

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

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 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Scan_Christian_Weiss_4.jpg (historic)

Christian Weiss

* 1976

Reception camp for GDR- refuges in Gießen, FRG, East German Refugee, Germany

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 19.8.1989 - Pan-European Picnic

Thomas Wieske in GDR prison

Professor, Dr. Thomas Wieske

* 1958

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , The ransom of political prisoners in the GDR, University professor, Political prisoner in the GDR, East German Refugee and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Kriemhild Zeh

* 1940

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Climbing Falkenstein and Sokol, with friends and future wife, 1962

Klaus Zimmermann

* 1941

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Erwin Zwerschina, 2018

Erwin Zwerschina

* 1932

Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

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