Theresienstadt Ghetto

Holocaust

The witness in uniform

Mgr. Petr Pilný

* 1939 †︎ 2024

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Hidden people

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

Lydia Piovarcsy (portrait)

Lydia Piovarcsyová

* 1933

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Jiří Podivínský during the recording for Memory of Nations, Olomouc, 31 May 2022

MUDr. Jiří Podivínský

* 1938

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Sokol, National minorities

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Petr Poláček, contemporary portrait. Prague, 1948

Ing. Petr Polacek

* 1936

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, Death marches 1944-1945, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Ing. Věra Poláková

* 1930 †︎ 2013

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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Chava Pressburgerová

* 1930 †︎ 2022

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A cultural celebrity

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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Eva Pytelová roz. Beerová

* 1925 †︎ 2017

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Jiri Richter in Prague, December 2006

Jiří Richter

* 1919 †︎ 2007

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2 and 2 more categories

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

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MUDr. Petr Riesel

* 1933 †︎ 2022

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Israel/Palestine, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans)

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Prof. Ing., CSc. Jan Roček

* 1924

Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945

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