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her father was victim of Stalin’s repressions
during WW II was working in Königsberg
she married a Czech from Brno town but under pressure she moved to USSR with three children born in Czechoslovakia ...
She was born in Plzeň from a middle-class Jewish family.
She lived in Prague since she was 4 years old.
She boarded the Terezín transport in February 1942.
Her father died shortly after the arrival to Terezín; her mother and she survived.
She worked in ...
born 3rd March 1935
only child of Mr. and Mrs. Vokatý of Lidice
destruction of Lidice
father executed, mother interned in concentration camp
Věra chosen for re-education, grew up in adoptive family
1946 found in Germany as part of repatriation of Lidice ...
arrested and held at a juvenile detention camp in Germany
joined French partisans (the Maquis) when thirteen years old
fought with the Maquis in Normandy
with French units from Paris to Linz
liberation of Cheb and Prague
Foreign Legion, fought in Korea and ...
born in the town Luck in Volynia on December 9th, 1923
her Granddad owned a brewery, she attended a Polish Grammar School, she didn't complete her studies
after the Soviet solders arrival at Volynia, the whole family was transported to exile in Siberia
in 1942 ...
born on 24 December, 1925, in Stražisko in the Prostějov region
her whole family got involved in the resistance movement, they supported the partisans
after they had been revealed in the beginning of 1945, the family with Eva’s newly-born child had to go into ...
born 1919 in a Czech family living in Warsaw in Poland
1928 the family returned to Czechoslovakia – Dubňany near Hodonín
graduated from grammar school in Hodonín
from 1941 working in the Baťa factory in Otrokovice, then in Zlín
January 1943 sent for forced ...
grew up in Moravia
hobbies – shooting and flying
joined the Czech air forces in Prague, mobilization in 1938
escaped to Poland
got to France and joined the foreign legion
later escaped to England, served in the 311th bomber squadron on the RAF
June 1941 – ...
his brother Václav abroad
father involved in resistance activities, entertained contact to the paratrooper Valčík
father executed in connection to the Heydrich assassination
arrest, deportation to Mauthausen
end of war
East Bohemian Union of the ...
he was born in 1921 in Slovakia, in Čadca town region
after he served out to be a machine fitter in Vítkovice town he was sent to convict labor in Germany in 1941
he ran away back to Slovakia
he worked as a civilian for a while, but then he was mobilized and ...