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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 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 ...
was born on 16th of October in 1922 in Ruske in Carpathian Ruthenia where family had owned a farm.
after the occupation of Czechoslovakia and Hungarians occupied Carpathian Ruthenia Bindzar had to enlist Hungarian army in October 1942, in April 1943 he was ...
born November 24th in Košice in a Jewish non-religious family
1939 moved to Vranov, then to Michalovce
on October 28th 1942 deportation of the whole family to an assembly camp in Sereď where they spent over a year
father declared an economically important Jew, ...
in 1952, only eighteen years old, she came to the Jáchymov mines as a civilian worker
she first worked in an office in the Svornost mine, then she worked as a shaft collector in the mines Edward and Barbara
she was an intermediary for the prisoners, keeping up ...
was born on 27th April in 1938 in Bánovice nad Bebravou
in 1941 her father, her aunt and uncle were deported to Auschwitz, her father later perished in Majdanek
Jolana with her mother and grandmother were sent to labor camp Nováky
after the Slovakian uprising ...

born in 1928 in Lukov, near Bardejov, Eastern Slovakia, where he also grew up
because of the option he and his family left to the Soviet Union, hoping they would find a fertile soil and a great wealth, however they were deceived
there was no way back from the ...