National minorities

National Minorities

Photo for the photo-album of school-leavers of the Vimperk Forestry School, 1967

Jan Märtl

* 1947

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

In times of greatest fame, in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s

Ing. Rony Marton

* 1943

Apatrida - osoba bez státního občanství, National minorities, Art and censorship

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Štefan Márton during university studies, early 1950s

MVDr. Štefan Márton

* 1932

Hungary, Historian, Holocaust, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities and 5 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest and 1 more anniversaries

As a young man

August Masár

* 1942

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Josef Mašek, born in 1955 in Gerník

Josef Mašek

* 1955

Romania, Czechs from Banat, Czech minority in the Serbia, National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

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

Father Václav Mašek

Monsignor Václav Mašek

* 1941

Representative of the Church, A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Czechs from Banat, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution, 1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

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General (ret.) Miloslav Masopust

* 1924

Holocaust, National minorities, Sokol, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín and 1 more anniversaries

Josef Maštalíř in 2021

Josef Maštalíř

* 1950

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

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

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First Lieutenant Václav Maťátko

* 1924

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

František Matějovský

* 1925 †︎ unknown

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, Holocaust, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2 and 9 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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