Witnesses starting with letter B

Eliška Bočková

Major Eliška Bočková

* 1942

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ivana Bočková as a young woman

Ivana Bočková

* 1946

Relative of a political prisoner

20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial

Ján Boďa 2015

Ján Boďa

* 1956

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 6.-13. 12. 1980 Operation Krkonoše

In youth

Ľubomír Boďa

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Stanislav Bodlák

Stanislav Bodlák

* 1924 †︎ 2017

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Military uniform

Václav Bodlák

* 1924 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Bodlakova orez.jpg (historic)

Mgr. Ljubica Bodláková, roz. Axmanová

* 1934

Political prisoner in WW2, Representative of the Church, Forced labour during the WW2, Non-Catholic clerical, Sokol

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Teresa Boehm

Teresa Boehm

* 1934

German minority in Poland after 1945, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive

Major (ret.) Alexander Bognár

* 1917

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Déclassé, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army) and 5 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord and 2 more anniversaries

Prison photograph - 1944

Jiří Boháč

* 1920

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

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