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Zdeněk Komárek (* 1929  †︎ 2022)

• he was born on October 3, 1929 in Buková

• since 1936 the family lived in Boskovice

• at the end of the war he witnessed an air raid and the execution of German soldiers

• in 1946 he completed his apprenticeship as a furniture carver

• from 1951 to 1954 he served in the army at the Border Guard

• he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

• he became a member of the town council and worked in the housing commission

• he started working in municipal services as a framer

• in August 1968 he suffered severe injuries in a tour bus crash

• he was expelled from the Communist Party during the normalization checks

• he also lost his position in the local national committee

• he visited his relatives in Vienna during normalization

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