born on 25 August 1965 in Ostrava
grew up in Ludgeřovice in the Hlučín region
his father was a worker in Ostrava machine works, his mother a nurse
graduated from the University of Mining in Ostrava
as a 19-year-old established contacts with dissidents from ...
Born in Ostrava on 5 January 1944
Grandfather Arnošt Dadák founded a coffee roasting and packaging plant
The witness’ father Arnošt Dadák Jr. managed the firm from 1939 to 1949
In 1949 she witnessed the nationalisation of the family business and StB house ...
Born on March 24, 1935, in Olomouc
He spent his childhood and the war Kroměříž and Zborovice, where he stayed with his aunt
In May 1945, he joined the Boy Scout organisation in Kroměříž
After the closing down of the grammar school in 1948, he trained as an ...
born 23 October 1942 in Ostrava
his father, Břetislav Hájek, was arrested by the Gestapo for his resistance efforts and later died in concentration camp
grew up in poverty with his mother and four siblings
the family was active in Sokol and the witness was ...
born on 5 September 1928 in Černá Hora near Brno
grew up at a chateau where both of her parents worked
in 1934 moved with parents and younger sister to Zlín
her father was a horse riding instructor for the Baťa family
became friends with Baťa's children as ...
born on February 12, 1926, in the miners' colony in Doubrava, Karviná region
his father was a miner, a blaster and social democrat
in 1938-1939 he experienced the Polish occupation of the Těšín region and the expulsion of Czechs from Doubrava
his family faced ...
born 25 September 1926 in Litomyšl in the poor family of a painter
her father was active in the resistance during WW2
1941–1945, her father was imprisoned in Terezín and Buchenwald
aged 14, she enrolled at the Baťa School of Work in Zlín and supported her ...