Witnesses starting with letter R

Witness at work in the mines, undated

Pavel Raniak

* 1928

The Partisan, Participant in the Slovak national uprising, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

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Bartoloměj Ranofrej

* 1914 †︎ 2003

Veteran of WW2, western front, Royal Air Force

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

Ludvík Rapan

Sergeant Ludvík Rapan

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Karel Raška during recording

prof. MUDr., DrSc. Karel Raška

* 1939

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US, Relatives of important personalities, Scientist

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Radmila Rasmussen

* 1965

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Miloš Rataj (a period photograph)

Miloš Rataj

* 1939

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Students who were for political reasons expelled from school

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Róbert Rátonyi

* 1938

Hungary, Holocaust

1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

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M.Eng. Jozef Rauch

* 1956

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

6.-13. 12. 1980 Operation Krkonoše

Václav Rauch with his parents and his older brother, 1924

Václav Rauch

* 1924 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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Otakar Raulím

* 1924 †︎ 2011

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR)

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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