The Second world war 1939 - 1945 (1331)

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Born in Volhynia
Enlisted in Czechoslovak Army, sapper in 1st Brigade under commanding officer Baláš
Took part in the Battle of Krosno and battles at Dukla
1947 re-emigrates to Staňkovice in the region of Žatecko, Czechoslovakia
Worked in local Kolkhoz, later ...
born on 20 September 1929 in Umaň, Ukraine (her sister Valentina Biněvská was born on 27 September 1925)
1942 – the Biněvski-Morozovič family arrives in Buzuluk, the site of the formation of the first standalone Czechoslovak military unit under the command of ...
born November 24th in Košice in a Jewish non-religious family
1939 moved to Vranov, then to Michalovce
on October 28th 1942 deportation of the whole family to an assembly camp in Sereď where they spent over a year
father declared an economically important Jew, ...
was born on 27th April in 1938 in Bánovice nad Bebravou
in 1941 her father, her aunt and uncle were deported to Auschwitz, her father later perished in Majdanek
Jolana with her mother and grandmother were sent to labor camp Nováky
after the Slovakian uprising ...

born August 23rd 1923 in Kalniště in Slovakia
1943 basic military service in Prešov, assists the commander, then as a messenger in the unit
1944 move to Poprad and Banská Bystrica, from there sent to the mountains and bunkers with military supplies
August 1944 ...
born in Rachov in Carpathian Ruthenia on September 10, 1920
fled to the Soviet Union
imprisoned in the gulag in Soviet Kolyma
member of the Czechoslovak Army in the USSR, taken to Buzuluk, fight-fighter in the East Front
dismissed from the Air Force after ...
born April 15th, 1922 in Worcestershire County in Great Britain
during the war met Czechoslovak soldier Jan Doležal who was serving in England then; they married
Jan Doležal was sent with a group of officers to the eastern front, in 1944 participated in the ...
was born on 27th December in 1920 in a village Česka Kolonie in Volyň.
Drahokoupil had to enlist the Red Army, he took part in retreat to Moscow, but he was captured in autumn 1941 by Germans
he was detained in camps Kremenčuk and Proskurov, his family succeeded ...
born August 20, 1912 in Donín near Louny
studied a commercial academy, then military academy, from which he graduated in 1935 as lieutenant pilot
1939 left for Poland, after the outbreak of WWII for France
in France served in defense of the air space over Lyon ...
born as Koloman Edelman in an orthodox Jewish family in Slovakian Šariš in 1918
graduated from Jewish Reform Real Grammar School in Brno in the school year 1939/1940
took part in a training camp of the Zionistic Youth for emigration to Palestine in Křivoklát ...