Jožka Jabůrková

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Jožka Jabůrková (before 1925)

Jožka Jabůrková (born April 16, 1896 in Vítkovice , † July 31, 1942 in Ravensbrück ) was a left-wing communist Czech journalist and writer as well as a translator from Russian. She also worked under the pseudonym Marta Janáčková or Ida Ostravská. She was tortured to death as an activist of the Czechoslovak anti-fascist resistance in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Life

Jožka Jabůrková worked in a steel mill during the First World War and later in a hospital. After the war she moved to Prague, where she was involved in the social democratic and later in the communist movement. She was also very interested in sport and held several posts in the Federation of Proletarian Physical Education. She also used her literary talent in the field of women's work (collaboration in magazines), where she took up social issues. Last but not least, she was involved in anti-war activities and organized campaigns for the benefit of suffering children in the Spanish civil war . In 1931 she was elected to the Prague Assembly of Deputies on the list of the Czechoslovak Communist Party . In this function, she continued to be involved in the field of women's work, child and youth protection, unemployment and poverty, and health. She has increasingly pointed out the danger of fascism .

On the night of March 15-16, 1939 - after the German troops marched into Prague and the protectorate was established - she was arrested together with over 6000 other people during the first large wave of arrests (so-called action grid or "akce Mříže") arrested. Jabůrková was later interned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp as one of the first Czech female prisoners. There she immediately made contact with anti-fascist-minded prisoners, especially the German women who had been imprisoned here for a long time. She died on July 31, 1942 after abuse and torture during interrogation.

Monument to Jabůrková, 2002 to the cemeteries Olšany re-erected

The later reception of Jabůrková's anti-fascist engagement was - as in many similar cases - characterized by the fact that she was also a staunch activist of the communist movement - which was often viewed as discriminatory after 1989. This also shows the fate of her monument, which Věra Merhautová created in 1965. The bronze monument erected by the communist regime was removed as undesirable at the instigation of the new landowners in 1992 after the Velvet Revolution .

In 2002 it was re-erected in the Olšany (Olšanské hřbitovy) cemeteries in Prague .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jožka Jabůrková, short biography, online at: jurgenz.sblog.cz , Czech, accessed on October 22, 2010
  2. ^ Persecution of the Czechs in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, online at: www.hagalil.com , accessed on October 22, 2010
  3. ↑ Perzekuce bez soudu. Cesta k vyhlazení Čechů, Praha, Český svaz bojovníků za svobodu 2006, pp. 13-17, no longer available online
  4. ↑ Vzpomínka na Jožku Jabůrkovou, online at: www.ta-gita.cz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Czech, accessed October 22, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ta-gita.cz  

literature

  • Božena Holečková-Dolejší: Komunistická novinářka Jožka Jabůrková. 2. vydání. Profil, Ostrava 1989, ISBN 80-7034-024-X .
  • Vladimír Forest and Collective (ed.): Lexicon české literatury. Osobnosti, díla, instituce. Volume 2 / I: H-J. Academia, Praha 1993, ISBN 80-200-0468-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jabůrková, Jožka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jozka Jaburkova; Marta Janáčková; Ida Ostravská
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech journalist and anti-fascist resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vítkovice
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1942
Place of death Ravensbrück