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Adolf Vlásek 1900 - 1942 Edit

Born 13.5.1900 in Hluboká
Died 12.4.1942 in Mauthausen

Biography

Adolf Vlásek was born in Hluboká nad Vltavou, the town located in the south part of the Czech Republic. He moved to Prague where he married my grand aunt Marie Straková. Adolf Vlásek was employee of the Central Social Insurance Company (Ústřední sociální pojišťovna), member of SOKOL and great patriot.

The reason he came to Mauthausen Concentration Camp was his participation in the resistance within the Czech Republic. He and several other patriots held one of the military radio stations to be in regular contact with Czech exile government and military representatives located in London, United Kingdom. The code name of this exact military radio stations network was SPARTA and Adolf Vlásek, together, with Antonín Hrouda, Bohuslav Volf, Alfréd Vít and Alois Šimoníček as well as Jan Zachariáš, Stanislav Medřík, Josef Paur, Josef Hanyk and others, who all died in Mauthausen too, provided our exile representatives with important military, government, weather, and other information from occupied territory of the Czech Republic. The SPARTA radio station network was active from September 1940 to October 1941.

Marie Straková – Vlásková was involved in the work of the resistance group and after her husband Adolf Vlásek was detained, she was several times interrogated in the very well-known Gestapo centre in Prague, located in Pečkův palác. She was not detained that time as she was pregnant but because the interrogation and torture were so intensive and heavy she lost her child unfortunately and after the death of Adolf Vlásek she never married again and lived without children till the end of her life. She died on January 1, 1987.

Adolf Vlásek was awarded with the Czechoslovak War Cross 1939 in memoriam as well as Marie Vlásková was awarded with the Czechoslovak War Medal for Credit, II. Degree. 

 

Jan Chalupa, relative

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