Volhynian Czechs

National Minorities

Zdena Bartoníková (née Končická) in 1968

Zdena Bartoníková

* 1950

Volhynian Czechs, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945

10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Zora Bártová, 1970

MUDr. Zora Bártová

* 1951

The underground, Life along the Iron Curtain, Volhynian Czechs

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Contemporary portrait

František Beneš

* 1923

Volhynian Czechs, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950

Young Josef Daniel Beneš

Josef Daniel Beneš

* 1941

Representative of the Church, Volhynian Czechs, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Non-Catholic clerical, Writer

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Vladimír Beran in Czechoslovakian army troop (builder´s company- Prague 1945)

Vladimír Beran

* 1925 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

Historical photo

Olga Berková

* 1924

Volhynian Czechs

Miroslav Bernat in the army

Private First Class (ret.) Miroslav Bernat

* 1924 †︎ 2024

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Participant in antifascist resistance and 5 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 4 more anniversaries

Nina Bilijenková 1946.jpg (historic)

Nina Bilijenková

* 1929

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Holocaust, Czech minority in the former USSR

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 1 more anniversaries

Sisters Olga and Věra Glajchova, 1935

Olga Bílková

* 1923

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Repatriated, Volhynian Czechs

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Antonín Bohatý

Antonín Bohatý

* 1913 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier, People helping Jews during WWII

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

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