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born in a Jewish family in Košice in 1921
avoided draft to labour camps and in 1941 escaped to Budapest
lived in Budapest as an illegal, worked as an electrician and in a chemical factory
1942-1944 arrested and sent to forced labour in Galanta, Vác and near ...
born April 22, 1920 in Kecskemét in Hungary
worked in the Jawa factory
during WWII he was a member of an illegal group
interned in concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald
married in autumn 1945
after the war studied pedagogy at the university
worked ...
born December 30,1936 in Prague
December 1942 deported to the Terezín ghetto
1953 the entire family arrested for an attempt to escape to Palestine
1960 graduated from the university from biology - chemistry
working in clinical and experimental medicine ...
born on 29th April in Lipník nad Bečvou
grew up in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, Bohumín and Ostrava
1939 – left through Poland to the USSR
joined the Czechoslovak armed forces
1941 – transferred to the Czechoslovak units at the Near East
participated in the ...
born on the 15th of May, 1923 at Šumava
witnessed the mobilization of 1938
lived through the occupation of Czech lands
held prisoner in Terezín
her parents died in a concentration camp in Poland
her first husband died in April 1945 in a concentration camp ...
born May 7th 1924 in Dresden in a Jewish German-speaking family
in 1930 the family moved to Liberec in Czech borderland
in reaction to rising anti-Semitic mood the family moved to Prague
parents shortly in a refugee camp, children in children’s homes
father a ...

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 ...
She was born on 7 September 1930 in Mława
In September 1939, the family left Warsaw and went to the East
Elżbieta Wrzosek's mother with her small kids and sister settled in Stołowicze
While the Jews were exterminated around Baranowicze and Słonim, the Wrzosek's ...
born August 18th 1928 in Humenné in a Jewish family
1930s the family moved to Carpathian Ruthenia in search of work
1939 Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia
interned in Hungary and then in the Stutthof concentration camp
survived Auschwitz, she was ...
Born on June 15, 1928, in Trutnov
Since her birth she’s been living in Česká Skalice
On December 14, 1942, she, her parents and her sister went from Česká Skalice via Hradec Králové to Theresienstadt
They arrived in Theresienstadt on December 17, 1942
On May ...