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28 results
title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
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Mel Mermelstein | Mel Mermelstein | 1926 | 2022 | Czechoslovak | Holocaust survivor and autobiographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Mermelstein |
Ivan Reitman | Ivan Reitman | 1946 | 2022 | Czechoslovak | film and television director, producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Reitman |
Salo Flohr | Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr | 1908 | 1983 | Czechoslovak | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_Flohr |
Karel Ančerl | Karel Ančerl | 1908 | 1973 | Czechoslovak | conductor and composer, renowned especially for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Ančerl |
Petr Ginz | Petr Ginz | 1928 | 1944 | Czechoslovak | boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp (known as Terezín, in Czech) during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ginz |
Hana Brady | Hanička "Hana" Brady | 1931 | 1944 | Czechoslovak | Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers at German concentration camp at Auschwitz located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hana_Brady |
Ladislav Hecht | Ladislav Hecht | 1909 | 2004 | Czechoslovak | professional tennis player of Jewish descent, well known for representing Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup during the 1930s, where he compiled an 18 victories-19 losses record | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Hecht |
Artur London | Artur London | 1915 | 1986 | Czechoslovak | communist politician and co-defendant in the Slánský Trial in 1952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_London |
Bedřich Reicin | Bedřich Reicin | 1911 | 1952 | Czechoslovak | army officer and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedřich_Reicin |
Otto Šling | Otto Šling | 1912 | 1952 | Czechoslovak | politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Šling |
František Kriegel | František Kriegel | 1908 | 1979 | Czechoslovak | politician, physician, and a member of the Communist Party reform wing of Prague Spring (1968) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/František_Kriegel |
Miroslava Stern | Miroslava Šternová Beková | none | 1955 | Czechoslovak | film actress who appeared in thirty two films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslava_Stern |
Andrew Steiner | Andrew Steiner | 1908 | 2009 | Czechoslovak | architect who participated in Jewish resistance to the Holocaust as a member of the Bratislava Working Group, an underground Jewish organization | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Steiner |
Rafael Schächter | Rafael Schächter | 1905 | 1945 | Czechoslovak | composer, pianist and conductor of Jewish origin, organizer of cultural life in Terezín concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Schächter |
Jakob Edelstein | Jakob Edelstein | 1903 | 1944 | Czechoslovak | Zionist, social democrat and the first Jewish Elder in the Theresienstadt ghetto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Edelstein |
Eugen Fried | Eugen Fried | 1900 | 1943 | Czechoslovak | communist who played a leading role in the French Communist Party in the 1930s and early 1940s as the representative of the Communist International | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Fried |
Karel Hartmann | Dr. Karel Hartmann | 1885 | 1944 | Czechoslovak | ice hockey player who competed in the Olympic games in 1920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Hartmann |
František R. Kraus | František R. Kraus | 1903 | 1967 | Czechoslovak | Jewish anti-fascist writer, journalist and editor, member of the | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/František_R._Kraus |
Ladislav Grosman | Ladislav Grosman | 1921 | 1981 | Czechoslovak | novelist and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman |
Ernst Gottlieb | Ernst "Arnošt" Gottlieb | 1893 | 1980 | Czechoslovak | tennis player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Gottlieb |
Alfréd Meissner | Alfréd Meissner | 1871 | 1950 | Czechoslovak | politician and member of the Social Democratic Party in the First Czechoslovak Republic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfréd_Meissner |
Marie Schmolka | Marie Schmolka | 1893 | 1940 | Czechoslovak | Jewish activist and social worker who helped political refugees and Jewish adults and children escape the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the lead-up to World War II. She was a member of WIZO and WILPF. She had previously helped refugees from Germany who fled to Czechoslovakia after the Nazi rise to power | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Schmolka |
Terry Haass | Terry Haass | 1923 | 2016 | Czechoslovak | artist known for her printmaking, painting, and sculpture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Haass |
Ady Steg | Adolphe Steg | 1925 | 2021 | Czechoslovak | urologist and Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ady_Steg |
Oskar Hekš | Oskar Hekš | 1908 | 1944 | Czechoslovak | long-distance runner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Hekš |
Július Balász | Július Balász | 1901 | 1970 | Czechoslovak | swimmer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Július_Balász |
Arnošt Frischer | Arnošt Frischer | 1887 | 1954 | Czechoslovak | Jewish politician who represented the Jewish community to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnošt_Frischer |
Gertruda Sekaninová-Čakrtová | Gertruda Sekaninová-Čakrtová | 1908 | 1986 | Czechoslovak | lawyer, politician and diplomat of Jewish origin, later also a dissident and signatory of the Charter 77 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertruda_Sekaninová-Čakrtová |