Witnesses starting with letter J

Josef Jařab in 2018

Professor Josef Jařab

* 1937 †︎ 2023

Dissident, Politician, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Libuše Jarcovjáková, 2016

Libuše Jarcovjáková

* 1952

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

contemporary photo

Jarmila Jarkovská

* 1924

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jaromír Jarmara

Jaromír Jarmara

* 1923 †︎ 2014

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia

Emilie Jarmarová

Emílie Jarmarová

* 1923 †︎ 2011

Holocaust, National minorities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 2 more anniversaries

Jelena Podhájská-Jarmoljuk on 16 July, 2012

Mgr. Jelena Jarmoljuková, roz. Podhájská

* 1955

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

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Ukraine in 1986–1991, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

28.1.2012 - The honoring of the Wolfram group leader Colonel Josef Otisk

Eduard Jarnot

* 1946

Boy Scouts

Jan Jarolím (en)

Ing. Jan Jarolím

* 1946

Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Jaroměřská Jiřina, 1952

Jiřina Jaroměřská, roz. Hrabětová

* 1931

Relative of a political prisoner

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Olga Jaroňová, 1958

Olga Jaroňová

* 1930

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

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