Sudeten Germans

National Minorities

Friederike Frank, geb. Urbassek

Friederike Frank, geb. Urbassek

* 1926

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

Ernst Franke in 1957

Ernst Franke

* 1953

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier

20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Hermann Frey, Pegnitz, 2020

Hermann Frey

* 1929 †︎ 2023

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Germany

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Friedrich Family 1936

Werner Friedrich

* 1931

Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Erika Fuksová (on right) during a ball in 1962

Erika Fuksová

* 1934

National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

Elsa Gabrielová -1957

Elsa Gabrielová

* 1934 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Miroslava Galásková with her mother and brother in Prague on the way to Stara Ves nad Ondřejnicí (ca. 1954)

Miroslava Galásková

* 1946

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

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Alois Heinrich Galle

* 1937

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation

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

Gertruda Galle - 1947

Gertruda Galle

* 1932

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans

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

Kurt Gebauer

* 1941

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

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