Jan Líbezný

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Jan Líbezný , before his name was Czechized after 1945 Jan Liebesný (* 1923 in Lomnice u Tišnova , † 2006 in Trutnov ), was a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who lived in Czechoslovakia .

Life

Jan Líbezný comes from the Liebesný family, who lived in Lomnice u Tišnova since the 19th century: the gravestones of the merchant Moritz Liebesný and his wife Louisa Liebesná from the 1820s are in the Jewish cemetery in Lomnice. Her son Otto Liebesný (* 1894) and his wife Markéta Liebesná (* 1898) lived and worked in Lomnice, their children Jan Liebesný, later Jan Líbezný (* 1923) and Lilly Luisa Liebesná (* 1927) grew up in Lomnice.

Jan Líbezný attended the city school in Tišnov and then worked in various professions.

In 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt , in 1944 to Auschwitz and in the same year to the Schwarzheide satellite camp . Líbezný experienced the end of the war in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he was transferred in April 1945.

After the war ended, he returned to Lomnice and took the Czech form of his name. He met Zdenka Blahoňovská, whom he married in 1947 and moved to Tišnov; In 1951 the family moved to Trutnov, where their two daughters, Irena (* 1948) and Jana (* 1955), were born. Later Líbezný studied law and became a lawyer.

Stumbling block

Stumbling block for Jan Libezny

On September 17, 2011, a stumbling block was laid for him in front of the house ul. Josefa Uhra 231 in Lomnice, where he grew up . The stumbling block bears the following text (here with a translation):

ZDE ŽIL
JUDR. JAN LÍBEZNÝ
NAR. 1923
DEPORTOVÁN
1942 DO TEREZÍNA
1944 DO OSVĚTIMI
PŘEŽIL

JUDR
LIVED HERE . JAN LÍBEZNÝ
GEB. 1923
DEPORTED
1942 TO THERESIENSTADT
1944 TO AUSCHWITZ
SURVIVED

The event, which took place as part of the "Days of European Cultural Heritage" (Dny evropského dědictví v Lomnici), received a significant response in the region. The online edition of the national magazine Literární noviny from September 13, 2011 also reported on the laying of the Stolperstein in Lomnice. The "Heritage Days" are organized in Lomnice every year by the local beautification association OSLO, which also campaigned for the stumbling block laying. In 2011 and 2013 a total of 9 stumbling blocks have been laid in the community on the occasion.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Líbezný Jan , Kameny zmizelých / Stolpersteine.cz portal, online at: http://www.stolpersteine.cz/ ( Memento from August 22, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Dny evropského dědictví , announcement by the Regional Office of the South Moravian Region , online at: jizni-morava.cz / ... ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Dny evropského dědictví v Lomnici , Message in Místní kultura, ed. from the National Information Center for Culture in Regions, online at: mistnikultura.cz ...
  4. ↑ Dny evropského dědictví v Lomnici , announcement in Vox, newspaper for the Tišnov region, online at: vox-cz.cz/ ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Kameny zmizelých připomínají na jižní Moravě už 66 osudů , in: brnensky.denik.cz (Brno edition of the online newspaper denik.cz) of August 11, 2013, online at: brnensky.denik.cz / ...
  6. ↑ Dny evropského dědictví v Lomnici , Artalk art magazine, September 14, 2011, online at: artalk.cz / ...
  7. ↑ Dny evropského dědictví v Lomnici , in: Literární noviny from September 13, 2011, online at: literarky.cz/ ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

swell

  • Stolpersteine ​​v Lomnici (Stolpersteine ​​in Lomnice), a documentation of the Lomnica Beautification Association "Okrašlovací spolek pro Lomnici a okolí" (OSLO) about Jews in Lomnice, online at: oslomnice.cz / ...
  • "Liebesná" rodina. Přežil jediný , section of the report Kameny zmizelých připomínají na jižní Moravě už 66 osudů , in: brnensky.denik.cz (Brno edition of the online newspaper denik.cz) of August 11, 2013, online at: brnensky.denik.cz / ...

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personal data
SURNAME Líbezný, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liebesný, Jan (before the name change)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Jewish concentration camp prisoner
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Lomnice u Tišnova
DATE OF DEATH 2006
Place of death Trutnov