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born on November 21st in Žitomir at Volyň
both family stems had Czech origins
after finishing elementary school he started attending electrotechnic
in 1944 he joined the Red Army – an antiaircraft unit
by the end of the war he was halfway between Berlin and ...
born on June 16, 1926, in Teremno in Volhynia
joined the Czechoslovak army in Demidovka in 1944
participated in the Battle for the Dukla pass
took part in the fights nearby Machnowka and Wrocanka
wounded nearby Komárník, transferred to a hospital in Řešov in ...

born on May 5, 1923, in the Far East
was interested in flying as a young man, flew a Polikarpov Po-2
194 – voluntarily joined the Red Army
participated in a 6 month training in Barnaul
1942 – fought at Leningrad, wounded
was trained as a pilot, flew an Il-2 ...
born November 26, 1922 in Carpathian Ruthenia
after the Hungarian occupation as a partisan
on his way to Prague arrested by the Gestapo, he escaped before being handed over to the Hungarians
again arrested by the Soviets while attempting escape to the USSR, ...
born in Hora Sv. Šebestiána in the Krušné hory (Erzgebirge) on April 13th, 1926
her parents were Germans of social-democratic thinking
family persecuted by the Nazis after the Sudetes occupation in 1938
family moved to Chomutov after 1940
she got the total ...

born in 1941 in the village of Tiriopetra in northern Greece (central Macedonia, Pella prefecture)
his father Kostas was a partisan in the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE)
evacuated to Czechoslovakia during the civil war in Greece
spent time in children’s homes ...
born 1938 in Greece
1948, father died, left for Yugoslavia, arrived in Czechoslovakia, placed in a children’s home in Ujčin
1952, children’s home in Kyselec
1954-5, switched to a grammar school in Nové Hrady
1955-6, switched to a technical school in Brno ...
born 1925 in Albrechtice u Českého Těšína
Polish nationality
in forced labour as a miner
his mother married a man who claimed Silesian nationality, Karel Chlebik thus had join the wehrmacht
fought at Monte Cassino with the German army
May 1944 captured by ...
Born in 1920 in Volhynia in a family of a cabinet maker who stayed there after the WW I.
She joined the general Svoboda’s Czechoslovak army
She went through a tough one-month training and then joint up straight to the front
Took part in the tough combat at ...
born in the village of Komorniki (Lvov voivodship, Turka county) on 15 June 1931
before the outbreak of World War II Mirosław Ilnicki completed the first form of a Polish primary school
in June 1944 his family farm was burnt by the Ukrainians
in May 1945, ...