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Ignác Bilík (* 1920  †︎ 2015)

• born on 31 July 1920 in Boršice at Buchlovice, in the region of Uherské Hradiště

• graduated from teaching at primary schools

• as a member of the Defence of the Nation arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to six years for high treason

• went through several German prisions, set free in 1945

• arrested by Communists for harbouring and assisting with getaways of wanted persons, interrogated in Uherské Hradiště, there sentenced to twelve years for high treason

• went through prisons of Mírov and Leopoldov, later Uranium mines in the region of Jáchymov (Rovnost, Prokop, Vykmanov)

• did his time in Leopoldov togehter with Gustav Husák and Richard Slánský

• has never come back to his profession of a teacher and made his living as a bricklayer

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