Born 26 April 1923 in Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia (then part of Czechoslovakia, now Ukraine). Not much is known about his early life. In 1944 he joined the foreign army, serving in the First Czechoslovak Tank Brigade in the battle to liberate Ostrava. On 18 April 1945 he was captured by German soldiers in Štítina and killed – allegedly by crucifixion on a farm gate.
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