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Zdeňka Pokorná

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where she retrained as a psychiatric nurse, and from here she continued both her anti-communist campaigning and her work for Czechoslovak expatriate organisations including the Association of Czechoslovak Legionaries.
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for her outstanding work for her home country and for upholding the ideals of freedom. For the remainder of her life Pokorná lived in the United Kingdom but never relinquished her Czech nationality.
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who, following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, helped a group of people to escape to Yugoslavia. Shortly after she was arrested by the
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teacher and patriot. She was hailed on her 90th birthday as the "living conscience of the century" by the Czech Government. She opposed the
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she was forced into exile to the United Kingdom, where she lived the rest of her life.
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Zdeňka Pokorná in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
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Zdeňka Pokorná in the Prague, Czechoslovakia, Selected Holocaust Records, 1939-1945
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Crematorium following which her ashes were buried in the Czechoslovak section of
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Pokorná was awarded the Czechoslovak Order of Merit (First Class) by President
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because of her anti-Soviet stance, she avoided impending arrest by escaping to
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Zdeňka Pokorná died in London in 2007 aged 101 and was cremated at
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Expelled from her position as headmistress in Břeclav after the
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Pokorná after receiving the Czechoslovak Order of Merit
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Czechoslovak
Habsburg
Nazi
Soviet Union
1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état

Brookwood Cemetery
Břeclav
Czech Resistance Movement
Gestapo
Death March
1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état
Austria
World War II
United Kingdom
Václav Havel
Honor Oak
Brookwood Cemetery
Surrey


Zdenka Pokorna - obituary
The Times


Zdeňka Pokorná in The Heart of Europe- (2009) pg 16
Zdeňka Pokorná in the Prague, Czechoslovakia, Selected Holocaust Records, 1939-1945
Ancestry.com
Zdeňka Pokorná in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007

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