National minorities

National Minorities

Ján Medviď during recording in 2023

Ján Medviď

* 1946

Poland, Emigrant, National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé and 8 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 11 more anniversaries

Vera Meisels

Vera Meisels

* 1936

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945

Foto_0161.JPG (historic)

Ruth Meissner, roz. Haasová

* 1928 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Meixnerová during her studies (1960)

Irena Meixnerová

* 1938

National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Hidden people

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marie Melicharová

Marie Melicharová

* 1924 †︎ 2023

National minorities, The relative of a political prisoner, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Evženie Meliková, 1944-1945

Captain (retired) Evženie Melíková

* 1924 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Holocaust and 5 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

Bernard Menachovský

* 1910 †︎ 2004

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Red Army soldier

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

Ida Menzinger, 1951

Ida Menzingerová

* 1931

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation

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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

In a Sokol movement costume, 1946

Ing. arch. Jiří Merger

* 1940

Russia, National minorities, Emigrants from Russia

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Josef Merhaut in 1978

Josef Merhaut

* 1959

Romania, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Czechs from Banat and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

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