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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 ...
was born on July 23rd in 1919 in Teplice
shortly before the war erupted Anita had been baptized and on September 17th in 1939 she got married to Jindřich Gaydečka of German origin, which saved her from a deportation to the concentration camp and the gas chamber ...
born on 30th June 1920 in Prague
in April 1939 left Czechoslovakia, over Yugoslavia, Italy and Switzerland to England
1939-1942 stayed, studies in London
1942-1945 at the 312th (from 1944 310th) Czechoslovak fighter squadron of the RAF, due to his eyesight ...
born on August 17, 1923, into a well situated family
as a Jewish citizen he emigrated to England before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia
the rest of his family followed him shortly afterwards
graduated in Great Britain
joined the Czechoslovak army in ...

Anna Greňová was born in 1930 in Liptovský sv. Peter
she spent her childhood in the Eastern Slovakia and her parents raised her to be a good Catholic
she had participated in different kinds of religion clubs; she was a member of the Catholic Youth Association ...
born 13th August 1924, Roztoky by Jilemnice
1944, forced labour in the Daimler-Benz factory in Nová Paka
illegally crossed the borders to Poland, crossed the Eastern Front and was captured by the Red Army; accused of espionage, sentenced to prison; escaped during ...
born on 24th of December 1930
political prisoner
his ancestors came from a German aristocratic family
boy scout, member of the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church
both parents and his brother were imprisoned during the War
after February 1948, resistance of16th ...
born as Večeřová on 28th July 1924 in Svébohov
supposed to work as forced labor
married to František Grunt
her husband took part in the resistance against the Nazis
19th April 1944, arrested and imprisoned in Theresienstadt, Breslau and Dresden
after the ...
born not far from Chust in Carpathian Ruthenia on July 24, 1919
enlisted to the Hungarian Army after the occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia
decided to flee to the Soviet Union - crossed the border on July 15, 1940
arrested by the Soviet soldiers, sent to ...
born on 12th July 1914 in Šternov, today’s Újezd u Brna
a political prisoner from South Moravia
graduated at the Law Faculty in Brno in 1939, just before the German occupation
a legendary athlete – the first and only trainer of Emil Zátopek
after 1945, a ...