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born April 1st 1929 in Ryliska near Vysoké Pole
partisans from the 1st Czechoslovak partisan brigade of Jan Žižka began appearing in the house of her father František Raška in the winter of 1944/1945
on April 19th 1945 the Ryliska hamlet and the Ploština ...
Born in 1921 in Carpatho-Ukraine.
In 1939, he was drafted to the army, which was soon dissolved, though.
Decided to run to the East but was detained by a Hungarian guard. During the second attempt he got to the hands of Russians.
He was sentenced to five years ...
Born in 1921 in Prague.
Since his youth he was an active and complex sportsman.
To avoid convict labour in Germany he joined the Government army in 1939.
Later he entered for the dragoons with whom he was reassigned to Italy in 1943.
Soon the whole troop ...
born 1925 in Albrechtice u Českého Těšína
Polish nationality
in forced labour as a miner
his mother married a man who claimed Silesian nationality, Karel Chlebik thus had join the wehrmacht
fought at Monte Cassino with the German army
May 1944 captured by ...
Born in 1920 in Volhynia in a family of a cabinet maker who stayed there after the WW I.
She joined the general Svoboda’s Czechoslovak army
She went through a tough one-month training and then joint up straight to the front
Took part in the tough combat at ...
born in 1929 in Vienna to a Czech – Russian family
grew up in Strasbourg and Neuilly sur Seine in Paris
1951–1954, studies at the military academy
1955–1960, service in the Foreign Legion in Algeria
after 1960, infantry service in France
after 1968, ...
rural background, father died soon after birth during the First World War
strong interest in literature, poetry
Teacher's Institute, Znojmo Grammar School
intern school, success in military school, NCO
Defence of the Nation (Obrana národa), arrested and ...
born December 23rd 1923 in Luck at Volyň – in the former Poland
worked as a secretary for the Soviets
met her first husband when he came to Volyň along with the Soviet army
because of him she joined the army, where they also married
her man was killed shortly ...
born in Carpathian Ruthenia in 1923
left for the Soviet Union in May 1940
went through Ukraine, Stryj and Donbas to the gulag in Arkhangelsk region
in gulag from spring 1941 to winter 1942
in the Czechoslovak Army from July 1943 (Buzuluk)
signalman in the ...
Born in Slovakia in 1925
Worked as a connection man for a guerilla group during the war
Joined Svoboda's army
Went through the heavy combat in Slovakia
Was severely wounded by Žilina and excluded from further combat
After the war became a professional ...