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born December 15, 1931
comes from an old farmers’ family
WWII in Libovice
persecution of Jews during WWII
assassination of Heydrich
Vlasov’s army
end of WWII
collectivization of farms and formation of Unified Agricultural Cooperatives (JZD) ...
born 1928 in Prague in a middle-class family of Jewish origin
October 1939 left with her parents and brother in a transport on the Danube River to Palestine
attended school in Palestine, learning to be a seamstress
after the war together with her parents ...
born 1929 in Chorov, Polish Volhynia
lived in the Czech Mirohošť in Volhynia until 1966
her family was the target of repression after the Soviet occupation of Volhynia in 1939
a witness to deportation of Jews from Dubna to the place of their murder
since ...
born November 24th in Košice in a Jewish non-religious family
1939 moved to Vranov, then to Michalovce
on October 28th 1942 deportation of the whole family to an assembly camp in Sereď where they spent over a year
father declared an economically important Jew, ...

born in 1952 in Prague
her mother had Jewish origins, her father was a Czechoslovak counter-intelligence officer
1961 – moved with her parents to Eastern Berlin
lived in Eastern Berlin till 1968
summer of 1968 – emigrated with her mother to Israel
military ...
was born on 27th April in 1938 in Bánovice nad Bebravou
in 1941 her father, her aunt and uncle were deported to Auschwitz, her father later perished in Majdanek
Jolana with her mother and grandmother were sent to labor camp Nováky
after the Slovakian uprising ...

born February 2, 1923 in Libánovka in Volhynia
1933 drafted to the 8th uhlan regiment in Cracow
during the war the family saved the life of a Jewish girl Minďa – Milka (later married as Sobotková)
they adopted Minďa as their own daughter and re-emigrated with ...
Czech jewish family from Prague
organized in the sionistic movement
transported to Theresienstadt
in Theresienstadt family camp v Auschwitz
after the war employed in United Press
emigration in Israel in 1949
Israeli journalist
Translator of Czech ...
born on 20. January 1920 in the family of a small Jewish businessman in Napajedla
in the autumn of 1940 he and his brother left in one of the last Jewish transports for the Middle East
He was an eyewitness of the sinking of the ship “Patria” – Autumn of 1940 ...
born in 1936 in Bratislava
sent to a transport to Poland together with his mother, the order was revoked at the last moment
his father had an exception and the family lived in Trnava
in late 1944 and early 1945, Jan and his mother were hiding in Smolenice, in ...