Born on 17 July, 1933, in Přísečnice in the region of Chomutovsko, in a village which is today flooded by a dam reservoir
in the school year 1943–1944 he was the only Czech to attend a German school in Beroun
On May 7th 1945 he witnessed the murder of his own ...
he was born on March 17th 1919 in Novosedlice village in Tjachevo region, Carpathian Russia
in 1940 he was taken into Hungarian army, but after just few months he ran off to Soviet Union
he spent two years in the detention Siberian working camp
he entered the ...
born 1928 in Prague in a middle-class family of Jewish origin
October 1939 left with her parents and brother in a transport on the Danube River to Palestine
attended school in Palestine, learning to be a seamstress
after the war together with her parents ...
born in 1948 in Portsmouth
since his youth, he was very political. He lobbied for the Labour Party
studied Russian and also learnt Czech
joined the Foreign office and was placed to Prague in 1973
his job was to read through newspapers, meet journalists and ...
born on 1st July 1924 in Hradiště na Volyni, Ostrožec district
during the war she worked at the farm and cared for wounded soldiers
speaks about her experience with the Russian, Ukrainian and German soldiers
witnessed the burning of the Czech village Malín
in ...
from a poor Jewish family in Sofia in Bulgaria
after the passing of anti-Semitic regulations he decided to join the resistance movement, at first in the RMS (Workers´ Youth Association)
1942 joined the partisans who were active in the Stara Zagora area
after ...
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 ...
he was born on September 19th 1926
his father Josef Bílý Sr. participated in the resistance activity
they were hiding partisans, runaway captives, but also Vítězslav Lepařík - the commander of the parachute landing with the code name Glucinium
on March 6th 1945 ...
was born on 25 June 1942 in Boskovice in Moravia
graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Ostrava in 1963, studied Czech linguistics, history and arts, performed as a stage actor in the theater “Pod okapem” in Ostrava
did his basic military service in ...