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Věra Fabiánová (* 1937)

How could they torment such a good and brave man?

  • born on the 31st of March in 1937 in Vavřineč

  • in spring 1945, she witnessed her family hiding a British pilot

  • in 1949, her father Josef Růžička was sentenced for high treason

  • her father was released from prison in an amnesty in 1960

  • apprenticed as hairdresser

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