- Document ID: 134586392
- Document Collection: 7-5-27 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Boleslav IVÁNEK, born June 3, 1917 in Palkovice (no. 152).
In 1938, he was appointed by the Ministry of Education in Prague as a teacher at a Czech foreign school in Romania. He taught in the villages of Nadlac and Eibenthal in Banat. From there, at the request of the German authorities after the occupation of Czechoslovakia, he did not return home, but joined other colleagues as an active soldier of the Czechoslovak foreign troops in the Middle East under British command. As an aviator, he was one of the defenders of the legendary Tobruk, later he fought in England and flew as a navigator with the 311th bomber squadron on Liberator machines. On July 5, 2003, Boleslav Ivánek died at the age of 86.
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