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born in the Czech village Český Boratín on Volyně on April 25, 1923
joined the troop of brigade observers in Rovny in March, 1944
took part in action including the area of Torčín, he walked Slovakia, he lived to experience the end of war not until in the land of ...
was born in 1928 in Ostrowiszki
between 1942 and 1944 Antoni Aleksandrowicz was a member of one of three Home Army units operating in the district
after the Soviets had entered Poland he was in hiding in the nearby forests for another five years
he returned ...
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 28 November 1922 in the village Kanora near Volovec in Subcarpathian Ruthenia
as yet a student of Mukachevo grammar school he and a few friends decided to flee into the Soviet Union in 1939
he was arrested by the Soviet frontier guard, imprisoned for many ...
born May 2, 1923 in Dolní Čermná near Lanškroun
1942: drafted to the German army, joined the Organization Todt
1942-1944: serving on the eastern front as a locksmith and road mender
1944-1945: construction worker building a factory for Messerschmitt fighter ...
born in Vienna on November 4, 1922
the whole family (parents, elder sister and twin sister) moved to Prague in 1924
his father was a famous film producer, an owner of large production companies Elekta Film, Slavia Film and a co-investor of Film Studios ...
born in Zolotarev (Chust district) in Carpathian Ruthenia on January 29, 1923
condemned to three years of forced labor for illegal crossing the border of the Soviet Union in November 1941. He worked off a year and a half in Vorkuta.
joined the Czechoslovak Army ...
Alfred Bäcker was born in September 1921 in Budweis
he grew up in a Czech-German environment
he attended a German elementary school and later a German grammar school
he graduated in 1939
trained as a telephone operator in Nuremberg
he was drafted to the ...
born 25th January 1917 in Parižovice, Slovakia
1939 escaped through Poland to France, joined the Foreign Legion
training in Algeria, 1940 fought in France
escaped occupied France to Britain, paratrooper training, preparations for a mission in to the ...
born on 24th October 1919 in Štefrov near Barďejov, Eastern Slovakia
sentenced to five years in a labor camp for illegal crossing of the border, worked in the woods in Ukhta, released in 1942
left to Buzuluk where he joined the Czechoslovak Army and passed ...