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Josef Brzoň (* 1935)

• +born on March 16th 1935 in Bernatice near Čechtice +from 1941 to 1950, he studied at the elementary schools in Bernartice and Dolní Kralovice +he completed his apprenticeship as a bricklayer, worked at the Ground Construction Company in Havlíčkův Brod +he had participated in the anti-communist resistance, was gathering weapons +on January 4th 1954, he was arrested in Ostrava by the Secret Police +on June 2nd 1954, he was he was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the district court in Jihlava +as a prisoner, he had been working in many labour camps around Horní Slavkov and Jáchymov +he had been released after the Amnesty of 1960 +after completing his compulsory military service, he had been working as a bricklayer till he left with a disability pension +at present, he has been living in the village of Bernartice where he was born

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