Marie Sedláčková

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Marie Sedláčková (born March 13, 1923 in Horní Sloupnice (Bohemia), † April 11, 1945 in Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a Czech anti-fascist activist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Litomyšl in 1942 , Sedláčková wanted to study medicine, which failed because the University of Brno was closed by the authorities of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . She declined to study in Germany that she was offered, even though she had a good command of the German language.

Instead, after consulting with her friends on December 14, 1942, she accepted a job at the veterinary institute in nearby Ivanovice . There she had access to the microbiological laboratory, which she used to obtain contaminated samples. She specifically transmitted these strains of contagious diseases to people of German ethnicity and also to their domestic and breeding animals in the area. Using the picric acid was at Czech citizens for forced labor , one were detailed jaundice was caused, so that delayed their departure or prevented.

Marie Sedláčková made ties around 1944; which was already active in various, mostly student resistance groups, contacts to the Rada tří resistance group , which was a successor organization to the ÚVOD group, which has since been broken up and also operated in the Proseč and Litomyšl area. Marie Sedláčková worked under the code name Pavla for this group as a liaison woman and transmitted messages.

After her arrest on March 10, 1945, she was taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp , where she died in the gas chamber on April 11, 1945 .

After the end of the war she received the Czechoslovak War Cross in memoriam in 1939 . In 1974 a stamp from the Czechoslovak Post in a series with resistance fighters was dedicated to her.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kdo byla Marie Sedláčková, online at: psms.pionyr.cz ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on April 29, 2019
  2. ↑ Text about an exhibition on resistance in Litomyšl (2005), regional TV station CMS TV, online at www.comvision.cz , in Czech, accessed on October 20, 2010
  3. ↑ Catalog Michel No. 2192, online at www.radio.cz , accessed on October 20, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Sedláčková, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manka (Nick in childhood), Pavla (alias in the resistance)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech resistance activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Horní Sloupnice
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1945
Place of death Mauthausen