National minorities

National Minorities

Jan Sýkora in the army in Bratislava, 1955

Jan Sýkora

* 1935

National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, 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, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Petr Sýkora

* 1952

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Béla Szaló

Béla Szaló

* 1951 †︎ 2018

National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Anna Szirtli during recording

Anna Szirtli

* 1939

Hungary, Illegal border crossing, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Andrej Sziszák during EYD recording in New York, 2023

Andrej Sziszak

* 1957

United States of America, Hungary, Croatia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 19 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 and 22 more anniversaries

A portrait

Bibiana Szulc Ach

* 1932

National minorities, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Štefanie Táborská, 2021

Štefanie Táborská

* 1950

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Kareem Taha

* 1986

Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, National minorities

Adolf Tahedl, Neukirchen 2019

Adolf Tahedl

* 1940

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Avraham Talmi

Avraham Talmi

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, Middle East, National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel), 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster

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