🪧In July 2021 the #MAFCSV worked with the Parish Council of Aston Abbotts🇬🇧 village to create an information panel on their village green. The panel was unveiled by representatives from the 🇨🇿Czech and 🇸🇰Slovak Embassy & our Chair Gerry Manolas. More&📸:
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Today in Wingrave, Ambassadors #MarieChatardova and Robert Ondrejcsak and Memorial Association for Free CzechoslovakVeterans's Gerry Manolas jointly unveiled two information boards commemorating the time when the village provided refuge to the cabinet of exiled Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš during the Second World War.

Thank you Nigel Baker & Veronika Homolová Tóthová🌹 for remembering Jozef Gabčík with students!🙏👏🇬🇧🤝🇸🇰
#lestweforget #allies #wewillrememberthem #jozefgabcik #soe #operationanthropoid #education #legacyofveterans #fightforfreedomneverends

Vote for Zdeňka Pokorná, Czech patriot, member of the Czech anti-Nazi resistance movement during the Second World War and holder of the Czech Order of Merit, to have a blue plaque placed on her former home. You can vote at southwarkheritage.org/blue-plaque-no…

🌺8th of April would be 112th Bday of Czechoslovak army in exile & 🇬🇧 SOE hero, member of Operation Antropoid - mission which changed history of Czechoslovakia🇨🇿 forever:
Jozef Gabčík🪖🪂💼🔫💥
*8/4/1912 Poluvsie (Rajecké Teplice, now Slovakia🇸🇰)
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We are absolutely delighted to share with you the interview of Alexander Scott, who is the son of F/Lt. Jaromír Střihavka. Alex is the 🇬🇧 Secretary for the Memorial Association for Free CzechoslovakVeterans and regularly attends the RAF’s commemorative events for WWII pilots:
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🇨🇿🇬🇧 #310Squadron #raf

Před 80 lety, v noci ze 3. na 4. 4. 1944 došlo k výsadku paraskupin BARIUM a CALCIUM, čímž byla zahájena tzv. třetí vlna výsadků ze Spojeného království do Protektorátu Čechy a Morava.

We would like to wish all our followers a very Happy Easter weekend.
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We hope you enjoy being with family and friends and weather allowing, time out in the fresh air and nature. And of course Easter eggs!
🇨🇿Veselé Velikonoce - 🇸🇰Veselú Veľkú noc - 🇬🇧Happy Easter
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VŠETKO NAJLEPŠIE (ČESKO)SLOVENSKEJ HRDINKE! 🥳❤

Pred 127 rokmi sa narodila Marína Paulíny, vojnová hrdinka, diplomatka, novinárka a humanitárna pracovníčka v exilovom 🇨🇿🇸🇰 Červenom kríži v Londýne 🇬🇧.

Sme hrdí, že sa o túto hrdinku so Slovenskom môžeme takto “deliť”.

Here is the 🎥 of The #MAFCSV Chair Gerry Manolas’s grandfather Lt. Bohuslav Šulc & his family story for the #ChildrenOfHeroes project organised by H.E Marie Chatardova, the Czech Ambassador🇨🇿 Czech Embassy London 🇨🇿 :
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🪖🎓🇨🇿🇬🇧 #internationalstudentsday #LestWeForget

#MAFCSV Chair Gerry Manolas, granddaughter Bohuslav (Sláva) Šulc👇 #childrenofheroes

Friday will be the funeral of the last Czechoslovak WWII veteran in England, Ervin Hoida. We send our thoughts and prayers to his family and honour his memory. May he rest in peace and may we never forget his courage:
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🪖 #wewillrememberthem #ervinhoida

On the eve of St.Martyr Silvester of Omsk Feast I attended the Lity, Orthodox prayer for departed, led by Metropolitan Dionysios inside Chapel at former Omsk Port-Arthur Cemetery, where 153 Czechoslovak legionnaires were buried. They died in 1918-19 & their graves weredemolished

To celebrate International Women’s Day we’re sharing the story behind the partnership of Zika & Lida Ascher🇨🇿. During & after the war they created a hugely successful👗design team & were influenced by leading artists of the time. Both are🪦 at Brookwood🇬🇧:
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Last weekend our International Secretary Marta Majerčík Marta Majerčík and our member Marian Majercik visited Prague, Czech Republic🇨🇿. Their visit included Museum of Czechoslovak Legions 🪖. More & 📸:
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#czechoslovaklegionnaires #Museum

Don't miss the 18th episode of our #ChildrenOfHeroes video series! Listen to the exciting stories of Stephen Loquens, son of #WWII veteran of Maj. Gustav Loquens. Watch the full video at youtu.be/CuTyTMzHFzc Ministerstvo obrany
Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Každý, kdo slyší jméno generála Moravce, si nejspíše hned vybaví, že byl u zrodu operace Anthropoid. Už málokdo ale zná méně skloňovanou část jeho práce v zahraničním protinacistickém odboji. Jedná se o vojenské komentáře k situaci na frontách 2. světové války. Všechny zazněly v…