Witnesses starting with letter R

Hubert Rauw as postman

Hubert Rauw

* 1927 †︎ 2020

Veteran of WW2, western front, Belgium

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Miloš Raveane

* 1924

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Bata school Graduate

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Tomislav Ravnić

Tomislav Ravnić

* 1929

Croatia, The Partisan

Viktor Ráža

Lieutenant Viktor Ráža

* 1925 †︎ 2022

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

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

Jiří Razskazov – a graduation photo, 1976

Jiří Razskazov

* 1957

Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Humberto Eladio Real Suárez

Humberto Eladio Real Suárez

* 1968

Cuba, Cuban Dissident, Political prisoner

Archival photo

René Rechnitz

* 1921

National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 Arab–Israeli War

authentic photo

Marie Rechtigová

* 1927

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Herbert Reckziegel, Wels, 2023

Herbert Reckziegel

* 1934

Austria, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Ervín Reegen in 1948

Ervín Reegen

* 1935 †︎ 2022

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

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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