Avant la construction du rideau de fer 1946-1949 (297)
Les années cinquante - 1948 - 1959 (406)
Born September 8th 1918 in Belgrade
Father owned significant travel company Mellion a spol., parents and brother did not survive Holocaust
Emmigrated to England in 1939, worked as ambulance driver in Warrington during air raids on Britain, married English Lady ...
political prisoner, born November 4th, 1932 in Litomyšl
from the family of an influential Litomyšl musician and pastor of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church Jaromír Metyš
in 1949 while still underage he was arrested, in October 1950 sentenced with a group of 23 ...
was born on 7th October in 1926 in Dvůr Králové nad Labem
in 1944 he was conscripted to the unit of „Technische Nothilfe“
after the war he became an airforce pilot, but because of his anticommunist attitudes he was fired from the military in November 1948.
with ...
born 11th January 1927 in the Czech village of Mirotín, Volhynia
April 1944, entered the Red Army when the Soviets arrived
trained in Zdolbunov
May 1944, joined the Czechoslovak military unit
signaller, later mechanized reconnaissance
fought in Poland, took ...
born October 15th 1926 in Protivín
from a well-to-do family of the First Republic middle class; for example her father used to be meeting T. G. Masaryk
after February 1948 not allowed to finish her law studies
imprisoned in 1948 in one of the sub-processes with ...
political prisoner born 1st May 1921 in Brno
grammar school classmates: Jan Skácel, Karel Kraugartner
lived by the ideals of the First Republic and honoured president E. Beneš
a member of Sokol, the Czechoslovak National-Socialist Party (ČSNS) and the ...
born on November 3, 1915
raised in a Czech family living in Vienna
1938–39 drafted to the army (because of his Austrian citizenship)
emigrated to England
training with the RAF, too late to join the fighting
was a member of the KSČ up to 1969
worked as a ...
born on March 11, 1923 in Český Těšín
started apprenticeship for a tailor
at the beginning of the war had to work in a clothing-cleaning shop
drafted to the German army – veterinarian unit
with the veterinarian unit he was on the western as well as the ...
Born on May 8, 1933 from a poor family at Žižkov in Prague.
During a portion of World War II, his father worked in Germany where he was in prison for some time; on May 8, 1945, his twelfth birthday, liberation of Prague under dramatic circumstances.
1951–1956 ...
born May 24th 1924 in Boratín in the Volhynia region
during the German occupation of Volhynia (June 1941–January 1944) resistance activity in the group Blaník
after the occupation of Volhynia by the Red Army in January 1944 he joined the Czechoslovak army corps ...