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    Volary (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvolarɪ] ; German: Wallern) is a town in Prachatice District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about...
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    patrol of the 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion operating near present day Volary, Czechia. The patrol was ambushed by German soldiers, and Havlat was struck...
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  • Waakirchen and 522nd FA BN Nisei soldiers Memorial to the Death March Victims: Chelm and Hrubieszow, Poland The Death March to Volary, at Yad Vashem website...
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    Germans are forced to walk past the bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by German SS troops in Volary (total of 95 women were tortured to death here)...
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    of the victims of the death march from Helmbrechts concentration camp to Volary. After the war, Erika Fuchs, German translator of Carl Barks's comics, lived...
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  • and primitive facilities. One prisoner who stayed there a month on the Volary death march writes of sleeping on dirt floors with no blankets. Nor was...
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  • Rájec-Jestřebí (3,732) Kamenice nad Lipou (3,723) Lázně Bělohrad (3,720) Volary (3,715) Lom (3,715) Velká Bystřice (3,694) Zbýšov (3,680) Židlochovice (3...
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    illustrated history on YouTube The Death March through Schlesiersee to Volary, at Yad Vashem website Collection of testimonies concerning Gross-Rosen...
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    Ruhr Pocket and then drove across the Czechoslovak border, 1 May, reaching Volary and Vimperk as the war in Europe ended. Total battle casualties: 12,818...
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  • Jeanette Schmid (category People from Volary)
    professional transgender whistler. Born Rudolf Schmid in a German family in Volary, Czechoslovakia, Schmid began to dress in feminine clothing at a young age...
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