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Karel Sedláček was born in 1927 in a Prague worker´s quarter of Michle. His father worked for rail transport. His mother took care of the household. He spent his school years in Michle, where he attended elementary school, and later in Vršovice to the second grade of elementary school. After finishing school attendance he started apprentice field of electromechanics at a company Reostat in Vršovice and also attended so called continuing school. In May 1945 he participated in the Prague Upraise as a shooter in an armoured train called Jan Žižka. He was heavily wounded on his right hand by a German shiper. After war he studied the Secondary Engineering School of Electronics in Prague, Na Příkopě and the High School of Economics in Prague. Following the studies he started at the Czech Planning Commission and then worked at the ministry of fuels and energetics, also as a spokesperson and later in a State Planning Commission. He was the founding member and the first head of the Freedom Fighters Association in Prague 10 - Hostivař. Currently he lives in Home care for war veterans in the Central Military Hospital in Prague-Strešovice. Is was awarded the Czech War Cross 1939 and a number of other medals and a number of other medals from top representatives of the Czech Republic.
