Stories of the 20th century

Post Bellum SK

Documentation project of Post Bellum SK that was funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme.

Štefan Šilhár

Štefan Šilhár

* 1932

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Catholic clerical

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

Marija (Marica) Šimić

Marija Šimić

* 1942

Otto Šimko in 1939

Otto Šimko

* 1924

Holocaust, The Partisan, Hidden people, Prisoners in the labour camps in Nováky, Sereď and Vyhne in Slovakia

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Witness on the procession of May 1, 1982, Bratislava

Ing. Katarína Šimončičová

* 1948

Environmentalist, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

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

Ewa Sipos

* 1974

The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

David Sivor in 1949

David Sivor

* 1934

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Hidden people

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

With black tabs

Marián Sklenka

* 1930

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Journalist, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Mikuláš Škrek

* 1918

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Valéria Slamová at young age

Valéria Slamová (Propstein)

* 1928

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , Death marches 1944-1945

Dominik Slobodník

Dominik Slobodník

* 1932

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 16.2.1945 - burning down of the Slovak village Priechod

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