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born 24th March 1923 into a Jewish family in Prague
16th October 1939 - left for Palestine
imprisoned in Camp Sarafand
14th May 1942 - joined the army
Tobruk, Dunkirk
war wound during the attack of the 28th of October
treated at St. Omer and in English ...

Born on December 31, 1923
A learned mason, studied the technical college of construction in Plzeň
Joined the second and the third resistance with his father František Wiendl senior
During WWII, a member of the resistance group Lidice, Niva in Klatovy, ...
born on 26. May 1920 in Hamburg in Czech-German Jewish family
in 1940 escaped to Yugoslavia, after it was attacked he wanted to get to Marseille and then to North Africa
captured in Italy, escaped twice
crossed the front to the Allies in southern Italy, joined ...
born in Praha-Vršovice on January 27th, 1925, the family lived in Libeň later on
his father lost his job as a turner in 1930, the family moved to the USSR during the economic crisis
he spent his childhood and youth in Pemza and Stalingrad, his school achievements ...
Born in 1928
His father, General Otakar Zahálka, was a Czechoslovak legionary in Russia, the director of the Military Academy in Hranice in the years 1935–1939 and a leading figure of the Defense of the Nation in Moravia
Jaromír Zahálka studied at the Military ...
born on March 19th 1923 in Zdolbunov in Vohynia
attended Czech and polish schools and after the soviet occupation also Russian school
during the years 1941-1944 working upon the forced labor in the train depot as a turner
On March 24th 1944 escaped from the ...
born on February 9th, 1922 in Olomouc - Černovír
worked in Letňany, avoided forced labor twice
for the third time sent off to France
participated in pitching up Hitler's tent and building his bunker
forced labor in Belgium as well
shortly imprisoned after ...
Volhynian Czech
spent her childhood in Hulcze Czech in Volhyinia
remembers the Soviet occupation in 1939 and the German invasion in 1941
was active in an illegal organisation Blaník
served in the First Czechoslovakian Army as an ambulance worker
after the ...
born on 11th October 1914 in Rožná pod Pernštejnem in the Žďár nad Sázavou district
1937 – graduated at the Military Academy in Hranice na Moravě as a lieutenant
12th June 1939, illegal crossing of the borders to Poland
left to France, served in the foreign ...
born on March 1st, 1921 in Poland
after the outbreak of WWII took part in guerrilla resistance movement
in Czechoslovak Army since spring 1944, Artillery officer
fought in Carpathian-Dukla operation and at Jaslo
fighting got injured a few times
settled down ...