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brought up as a patriot
cofounder of a student resistance group called Masaryk´s guard
on forced labour in Kiel as a fireman with the Luftschutzpolizei
after his return to the Protectorate served in the Luftschutz, continued with resistance activity
arrested ...
born July 10th 1920 in Protivín
between 1941 and 1944 active in the resistance organization Obrana Národa in Protivín
April 28th 1944 arrested and imprisoned in Terezín where he spent six months
then on forced labour in Poldi Kladno and in prison in ...
born in Ozerany in the Polish part of Volhynia on September 5th, 1928
the farm was seized from the family after the arrival of the Soviets
an eye witness of killing off three Polish families by the Ukrainian Nationalists
received his draft notice for the Soviet ...
born on August 15, 1928, in Račice
her father, Josef Štěrba, was a professional teacher who supported the resistance movement and was elected the president of the Revolutionary National Committee of Březnice in May 1945
after her school-leaving exam she studied ...
born May 23rd 1917 in the village of Hradčany, Prostějov district.
from a large family, three brothers served as legionaries in WWI
since 1937 in the army
during the mobilization in 1938 commanded a machine-gunners platoon as a sergeant cadet in the fortress in ...
born on February 20, 1922, in Carpathian Ruthenia
fled to the Soviet Union in 1940
arrested and sentenced to three years of Gulag
worked in the coal mines of the Vorkuta labor camp
released in 1942 and sent to Buzuluk to join the Czechoslovak army corps ...
born on 15th November 1920 in Staré Teremno in Volhynia, father fought in the Russian Army in the WWI
during the Soviet occupation, his uncle and his cousin were interned in a labor camp in Kazakhstan
spring 1944 - joined the Czechoslovak army in Lutsk, army ...
born in the village Staré Teremno in Volynia on November 1st, 1907
remembers the WWI events
became a leader of a choir in 1932 in Staré Teremno
after the arrival of the Soviet troops at Volynia in 1939 he had to go to work to the woods
moved to the orchestra ...
born February 29th 1920 in Zálesí in the Volyně region
on March 1943 joined the Russian army in Rovno
operated an anti-aircraft and anti-tank machine gun
took part in the fighting in Machnowka and in the Carpathian-Dukla operation
injured at Dukla, his hand ...
born December 17th 1921 in Lanžhot in southern Moravia
trained as a workshop fitter and founder
Totaleinsatz (forced labour) in Linz, Graz, Vienna, Kharkov, Uman
1942 imprisoned for 2 months in prison in a factory in Kharkov
during the passage of the front in ...