French Foreign Legion (36)
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Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2 (99)
People's Army of Poland soldier (2)
Red Army soldier (40)
Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945 (22)
The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia (6)
The Partisan (62)
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Veteran of WW2, Middle East (37)
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Wehrmacht soldier (33)

born October 22, 1922 in České Noviny in Volhynia
1941 imprisoned for work sabotaging
July 13, 1943 the burning down of Český Malín
1944 joined the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps
serving as a tank desant trooper
Carpathian-Dukla operation
wounded in an air ...

Born on January 14, 1925, in Rychvald
Enrolled in the Wehrmacht in 1943
Assigned to the German Navy (Kriegsmarine)
Served on a ship that escorted merchant vessels
After his vessel was sunk by the Allies, he joined the French partisans
Joined the ...
born in Mikulčice on 4 November 1918
attended council school in Mikulčice and municipal school in Pohořelce
apprenticeship in the Martinásek machine works in Židlochovce
worked in the Brno armaments works as a technician in the development workshop and later in ...
born on December 17th 1917
in 1933 finished the ten grades of school in Brno town
attendance by 10th regiment in Brno town
in 1934 graduated on Army academy in Hranice na Morave town (with LT honor)
served the army in Slovakia by border line regiment
stay ...

born 7th January 1925 in Svébohov
while at grammar school in Litovel, became commander of Section II of the Czechoslovak Youths Union resistance group
28th August 1944, arrested by the Gestapo
imprisoned in the Olomouc "garňák" [military prison], at Kounice ...
Born on February 23, 1924 in Teremna in Volhynia
Attended a Polish elementary school but wasn’t allowed to finish his higher studies as the Soviet Union was attacked by Germany
After the arrival of the Germans Mr. Fros had a job at the lumber mill in Luck
In ...
he was a pilot born on November 4th 1915 in Hrachoviště village in Slovakia
on June 7th 1939 he flew from Slovakia to Poland accompanied by another three pilots
he managed to escape by plane during the bombing attack on the Deblin base
he and some other Polish ...
born as Koloman Edelman in an orthodox Jewish family in Slovakian Šariš in 1918
graduated from Jewish Reform Real Grammar School in Brno in the school year 1939/1940
took part in a training camp of the Zionistic Youth for emigration to Palestine in Křivoklát ...
born April 8, 1924 in a Jewish family in Žilina in Slovakia
as an illegal plumber's apprentice when the Slovak State was declared
interned in a camp in Žilina
after the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising in the army for a short time, fighting against the ...
born in 1970 in Karviná, his father was a miner
1989-1991 - compulsory army service
May 1991 – joined the French Foreign Legion
2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2.REP)
1994-2003 – member of the special unit of the 2nd regiment – CRAP (GCP)
missions to Africa ...