Heros I Met

[seesul]

Ok.............yes I got your words twisted........I get it now

Yes, sorry again! As I said, my mistake...

 

[Pisis]

OK, some more pictures.

This is Bedřich "Boris" Kopold, an officer of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in USSR. He was born in 1921 in Ostrava (Mährische Ostrau), Czechoslovakia and in 1939 - as a Jew to - was deported to a labor camp in Nisko, Poland.

He managed to flee to USSR, where he worked two years in various locations as a miner. In 1942, Czechoslovak Battalion was estabilished to fight alongside the Red Army. He joined and went through all campaigns until the very liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945.

After the Communist Putsch in Czechoslovakia in 1948, although a Communist himself, Kopold was arrested and sent to a forced labor camp for more than five years. He became a professor later.

An interesting fact is that Kopold was a very good friend of Bill Clinton, because Clinton lived at his flat for some time in the 70's. At that time he was just a anonymous student...

I did an interview with Kopold in late 2005, shortly afterwards he passed away.

 

[timshatz]

Impressive. Gets out of a labor camp and goes on to become a proffessor. Impressive drive.

 

[Eco-81]

Pisis, i hope you do not mind if i post a photo of a friend of mine in your thread.

Ed Pepping was a medic with Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Ed was one of the original Toccoa men and parachuted into France on June 6th. Ed was awarded the Bronze Star for actions on June 7th 1944. Ed is a wonderfull man who takes every opportunity to visit schools to talk with young teenagers about the sacrifices that our service members make for our freedom.

Here are some photos of when i brought him to the station to meet some co-workers of mine and one of him at the Normandy Museum.

 

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[Njaco]

Great pics, Eco! That last one is very dramatic, poignant. Great!

 

[seesul]

Yep, great pics Eco! Thanks!
I´d never want to see what Ed had to see during his service...I mean young boys suffering and dying...

 

[Pisis]

Always impressive to see heroes! Thanks for posting, Eco!

 

[Heinz]

Great shots Eco!

and great thread Pisis.

 

[wilbur1]

Jesus are those guns registered! Cool shots though e thanks

 

[Pisis]

Today, organizing a trip to Lidice, I did a little bit of filming, though amateurish - only through my digicam...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REEU7bDK9BE

Will upload more soon.

 

[Pisis]

Dr. Prof. Felix Kolmer, CSc. was born in Prague in 1922. At 1935, he had his Bar Mitzwe at the Great Synagogue of Vinohrady with Rabbi Sicher. In November 1941, at the age of 19, he was deported to Terezín with the very first transport that came there, marked AKI - Aufbaukommando. - the Build-up Commando. Their job was to turn this abandoned garrisson town of barely 7,000 inhabitans into a ghetto for 65,000 Jews from Central Europe. He survived several different concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Friedland, escaping at May 1945 to the arms of the Soviet army, while most of his fellow-prisoners were murded right before the army liberated that camp. He is a bearer of several high-distinction awards for community work between Czechs and Germans and is a famous physicist who discovered several physical laws. Prof. Kolmer also serves as a Vice-President of the International Auschwitz Committee. He is my good friend.

Terezín ~ Small Fortress, April 2008.