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born 1925 in Roudnice nad Labem
victim of persecution of students from the Roudnice grammar school following Heydrich´s assassination
imprisoned in the Little Fortress in Terezín, Auschwitz and Dachau
after the war studying at the Institute of Chemical ...

born on 3rd May 1923 in Novostav in Volhynia
in 1941 and 1942 jailed in a German prison in Rovno
escaped and hid at his aunt’s barn
joined the guerrilla fighters under the command of lieutenant Medvedev in summer 1942
joined the anti-tank artillery in the Red ...
Born on May 13, 1925, in Volhynia
A witness of ethnic cleansing in Volhynia
Member of the resistance organization Blaník
1944 – joined the 1st Czechoslovak army corps
Signalman and radio operator
At Dukla and Wrocanka, he was ran over by a German tank, ...
born in Jihlava
taken to the Terezín ghetto in 1942
survived concentration camps Auschwitz and Kaufering
labour camp in Litoměřice
at the end of the war back in Terezín
1949 left for Israel with a Czechoslovak unit
life in an Israeli kibbutz, experienced ...
maturita na obchodní akademii v Košicích
za války v pracovním pluku Slovenské armády (1941–1944)
účastník Slovenského národního povstání
po válce kandidát KSČ, notár (správní úředník)
odchod do Izraele v roce 1949
v Izraeli pracoval v celní správě
do ...
born in Teplice in a well-off family
after the annexation of the Sudetenland his family had to move to Prague
transported to the Lódź ghetto with his family in October 1941 (B ghetto in Litzmannstadt-Lodz)
became an orphan at age 12 in the ghetto
transported ...

he was born in 1937 in Prešov
as a child he and a part of his family underwent the holocaust horror
since they were labelled as economically important Jews, they were granted a dispensation and their chances to survive became limited
they tried to flee to ...

he was born on January 27, 1928 in Prague
he comes from a Jewish family
since his early childhood he has gone for in music and violin playing
beginning of the Second World War meant the stop-out of his grammar school studies
in 1939 the whole family got ...
born in 1911 in Hungary as Jozef Lövinger
pre-war member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Bratislava
called to arms in 1938, served at a machine-gun
member of the labour unit of the Hungarian army
captured by the Red army, his life saved by the ...
born 1916 in Ljubljana, growing up in Prague
began studying the faculty of medicine before the war, but due to the Nazi occupation did not finish his studies, left for France in 1939
joined the Czechoslovak unit in Agde as early as October 1939
took part in the ...