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Wenzel Novák

1884

Nationality: Czech Republic
Occupation: tailor

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Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
Dates unknown
Buchenwald concentration camp
Dates unknown

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Frantiska Hronik
1900Czech Republic
Zdenka Nedvedova-Nejedla
1908–1998Czech Republic
Ota Kraus
1909–2001Czech Republic
Božena Holečková
1909Czech Republic
Antonín Vandrovec
1907–1999Czech Republic
Juraj Herz
1934–2018Czech Republic
Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 â 8 April 2018) was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s.

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Wikidata (Q130366741)