Witnesses starting with letter L

Karel Lednický serving in the army

Karel Lednický

* 1942

Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Hana Ledrerová

Hana Ledrerová

* 1942

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

Milena Ledvinková in 1948

Milena Ledvinková

* 1928

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Nina Ledvinová, 1945

Nina Ledvinová

* 1924

National minorities, Repatriated, Participant in antifascist resistance, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 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 5 more anniversaries

Lefkovits Ivan

Ivan Lefkovits

* 1937

Emigrant, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial

Michal Legdan

Michal Legdan

* 1939

Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Ladislav Lehár, 1939

Ladislav Lehár

* 1920 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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Danuška Lehárová

* 1923

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Lehejček František

František Lehejček

* 1927 †︎ 2016

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Elfrieda Lehnertová, a portrait

Elfrieda Lehnertová

* 1938

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Sudeten Germans and 4 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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