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she was born on July 28th 1927 in Hradec Králové
she comes from Czech oriented non-religious Jewish family
on July 31st 1939 she left with her sister on the last Nicholas Winton´s train to England
she spent the war years in Boston, Lincolshire County
her ...
born in October 1928 into a Jewish family in Eastern Slovakia
spring 1944, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau with a part of her family
November 1944, worked at an air plane repair shop in Zittau
after the war, lived in Velké Kapušany until 1974, then moved to ...
He was born in 1910 in Benešov town in Czech/Jewish family (His original last name was Klein)
graduated on the Faculty of law in Prague
In April of 1939 decided to go to Palestine
He was called up to the 11th Czechoslovak Army infantry troop
participated on ...
born January 1, 1925, in Velká Bystřice
he and his parents were arrested on September 18, 1942 because of his brother who served in the RAF
detained in Brno, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald
his father died in Auschwitz, his mother was released from the camp in ...
Family derived from Volyňská Češka
Born in the Bohemian district of Mirohošť
In 1947 resettled in Bohemia
Her whole life was spent as a teacher ...
one of the oldest of the children saved by Nicolas Winton
studied at a secondary school in Britain
artillery operator in the Czechoslovak armed brigade
combat at Dunkerque
after the war planner and clerk in the Tatra works Smíchov
as a western soldier his ...
born May 3, 1922 in Prague in a family of an Italian legionnaire and tradesman with electrotechnics
has been an eager scout all his life
November 24, 1941 as a member of Aufbaukommando transported to Terezín, working on the building of the ghetto
witnessed the ...
born in Prague in 1926
born into a mixed, Czech-German-Jewish family
her father was an assimilated Czech Jew who had left the religious community, her mother a registered Catholic, originally from Sudetes
she was the only member of her family in ...
born 10th January 1921 into a Jewish family in Moravská Ostrava
deported with other Jews to no-man's land between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in Poland
fled thence to the USSR
worked in the Donets Basin and Central Asia
left for Buzuluk when the ...
born in Česká Lípa in 1928, spent her childhood in Prague-Karlín
younger sister of Margit Rytířová (Schneiderová)
she left with her sister for Britain in the children transport at the end of May 1939
she and her sister lived in the county of Herefordshire, ...