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born in Praha-Vršovice on January 27th, 1925, the family lived in Libeň later on
his father lost his job as a turner in 1930, the family moved to the USSR during the economic crisis
he spent his childhood and youth in Pemza and Stalingrad, his school achievements ...
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 in 1928
His father, General Otakar Zahálka, was a Czechoslovak legionary in Russia, the director of the Military Academy in Hranice in the years 1935–1939 and a leading figure of the Defense of the Nation in Moravia
Jaromír Zahálka studied at the Military ...
born in Ruda nad Moravou on April 22nd, 1921
attended primary school in Zvole
graduated from Commercial College in Olomouc in 1942
sent to forced labor in Bernsbach in Niedersachsen in the same year
refused to come back to forced labor from his holiday, was ...
born March 22, 1917 in Brno
a member of Sokol
from 1937 studying law at the university in Brno
direct witness of student arrests and the closing down of Czech universities in autumn 1939
interned in concentration camp Sachsenhausen, released after one year ...
born on March 19th 1923 in Zdolbunov in Vohynia
attended Czech and polish schools and after the soviet occupation also Russian school
during the years 1941-1944 working upon the forced labor in the train depot as a turner
On March 24th 1944 escaped from the ...
born on February 9th, 1922 in Olomouc - Černovír
worked in Letňany, avoided forced labor twice
for the third time sent off to France
participated in pitching up Hitler's tent and building his bunker
forced labor in Belgium as well
shortly imprisoned after ...
Volhynian Czech
spent her childhood in Hulcze Czech in Volhyinia
remembers the Soviet occupation in 1939 and the German invasion in 1941
was active in an illegal organisation Blaník
served in the First Czechoslovakian Army as an ambulance worker
after the ...
born January 1, 1920 in Brno
structural engineer
detained in Villach, Klagenfurt, Dachau and Mauthausen
worked as a structural engineer in KT Mauthausen; his fellow prisoner was Antonín Novotný
liberated by Americans from KT Mauthausen
remained apolitical ...
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 ...