Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

Nazism

Portrait of the witness, 1939

Ludmila Petřvalská

* 1925

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Hermína Petrželová, 2021

Hermína Petrželová

* 1927

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ljuba in childhood

Ljuba Petrželová

* 1936

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Marianna Pevná

Marianna Pevná

* 1938

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 1 more anniversaries

Karel Pfeiffer_

Karel Pfeiffer

* 1936

National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 4 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Janka

Jana Pfeifferová

* 1931

Boy Scouts, Syrinx (scouts), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Agnesa Piasecká during EYD recording.

Agnesa Piasecká

* 1954

Clergymen, Hungary, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989 and 8 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 13 more anniversaries

Miroslav Picek in period photo

Miroslav Picek

* 1941

Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Memory of vanished settlements, The Partisan, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army and 6 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Edeltraud Pichl Rojíková

* 1928 †︎ 2014

A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Déclassé and 2 more categories

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

Libuše Picková in 1957

Libuše Picková

* 1939

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé and 8 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, Death marches 1944-1945, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans) and 2 more anniversaries

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