World War Memorial - Orechov, Czech Republic
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N 49° 06.588 E 016° 31.569
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World War I and World War II Memorial - Orechov
Waymark Code: WMYFAN
Location: Jihomoravský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 06/09/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Math Teacher
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Almost every village in the current Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia) has a monument devoted to the victims of WWI and WWII. Among the victims of WWII were also civilians who participated in home resistance against German occupiers or died in German concentration camps. The monuments also mention the names of soldiers of the former Czechoslovak army. These soldiers fled abroad from the occupied homeland and were involved in fighting in the east and west of Europe. They created a separate Czechoslovak unit that was part of the Red Army or Allied armies of the Great Britain and the United States.


Memorial Inscription:
I. SVETOVÁ VÁLKA 1914 – 1918
ORECHOV
STANISLAV FRANEK, ALOIS HLADUVKA, EMANUEL HLADUVKA, PETR HRDLICKA, STANISLAV HRDLICKA, ALOIS JANEK, AUGUSTIN JANEK, FRANTIŠEK JANEK, JOSEF JANEK, STANISLAV JIRÍKOVSKÝ, FRANTIŠEK KUBÍCEK, BOHUMIL KYSELKA, JAROSLAV KYSELKA, JAKUB MIHOVSKÝ, MATEJ NOVÁK, JAN PEHAL, KAREL PETERKA, ONDREJ PÍREK, FRANTIŠEK RYŠAVÝ, JAN RYŠAVÝ, BOHUMIL SMEJKAL, FRANTIŠEK SVOBODA, VÁCLAV ŠENKÝR, JAN TOLAR, MARTIN TRCKA, BOHUMIL VANEK

ORECHOVICKY
MATEJ DVORÁK, JOSEF FRANEK, JOSEF HADAC, FELIX HRUBÝ, TOMÁŠ HRUBÝ, FRANTIŠEK JANÍCEK, VINCENC KLUSON, JOSEF MALÝ, JOSEF NOVÁK, KAREL PÁR, RUDOLF ŠKAROUPKA, JAN ŠMERDA, FRANTIŠEK ŠMÍD, JOSEF ŠMÍD, TOMÁŠ TRENZ

TIKOVICE
JOSEF CERVINKA, STANISLAV DVORÁK, FRANTIŠEK HRDLICKA, VENDELÍN CHRAMOSTA, JAN JANEK, JAN JANÍCEK, RUDOLF JIRÍKOVSKÝ, JOSEF JURACKA, JOSEF KANA, JAN KOZLÍK, JAN PAVLÍK, ANTONÍN PEHAL, FRANTIŠEK PEHAL, MATEJ PEHAL, JAN PEŠKA, JINDRICH PEŠKA, MATEJ PEŠKA, ANTONÍN POLÁCEK, TOMÁŠ PROCHÁZKA, TOMÁŠ SKLENARÍK, MATEJ SKLENSKÝ, JAN SLAVÍK, JAN SMEJKAL, JAN ŠKORPÍK, VLADISLAV ŠMÍD, JOSEF ŠIMRDLA, FRANTIŠEK TOPINEK

II. SVETOVÁ VÁLKA 1939 – 1945
Pplk. ALOIS TOLAR, ROSTISLAV ŠENKÝR, MUDr. ANTONÍN HARTMAN, ALOIS JIRIKOVSKÝ, FRANTIŠEK PAVLÍCEK, HELENA NEUMANOVÁ, VILEM NEUMAN, AMATKA ŠTASTNÁ, STELA ŠTASTNÁ, Dr. ALFRED ŠTASTNÝ, OLDRICH FRANEK, LEOPOLD HLADKÝ, JAROSLAV MATONOHA, METODEJ PEŠKA, JAROMÍR SKLENSKÝ

OSVOBOZOVÁNÍ OBCE 1945
FRANTIŠEK CÍŽEK, MARIE CÍŽKOVÁ, FRANTIŠEK KOMÍNEK, VLASTIMIL KUBÍK, OLDRICH LEHECKA, AUGUSTIN LIŠKA, ZDENEK LIŠKA, JOSEF NOVÁK, ZDENEK OSTROVSKÝ, KVETOSLAV PEHAL, FRANTIŠKA PEHALOVÁ, JAN REŠKA, MATOUŠ ROZSYPAL, ANTONÍN SMEJKAL, FLORIAN ŠENKÝR, BEDRICH ŠINDLER, RUDOLF ŠKAROUPKA, MARIE ŠKAROUPKOVÁ, JOSEFA STOHANDLOVÁ, JOSEF ŠULC, JOSEF VALOUŠEK, BOHUMIL VANEK, ANEŽKA VRBKOVÁ

VENOVÁNO OBETEM I. A II. SVETOVÉ VÁLKY
OBEC ORECHOV ZÁRÍ 2000
Property Permission: Public

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Location of waymark:
Ořechov, Czech Republic


Commemoration: Czech citizens and soldiers fallen in the fight for freedom of the nation and country

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