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Bohumil Libánský 1901 - 1942 Edit

Born 28.7.1901 in Praha
Died 9.7.1942 in Mauthausen

Biography

Bohumil Libánský was an architect in Prague. He had a wife (Růžena Libánská) and a daughter, Rita (Růžena) Lepší (née Libánská) who was seven years old when he was arrested and taken away. He was taken by the Gestapo from his home by force one evening in 1940 for storing radio equipment meant for clandestine radio broadcasts in English that were prohibited by the regime. He was first taken to Terezín and then transferred to Mauthausen where he died. The official cause of death given was "heart failure", but the family later learned that he actually starved to death.

Coming from a fairly wealthy family, his daughter (my mother) remembered him to me this way:

"My dad was a dreamer. He was, against his will forced to be an architect to work in his family business. He loved music, writing, and arts, and was equipped with a talent in all of them as well. He played very good piano and guitar, wrote some music, and a few theatre plays. And in his office instead of working he was sketching people he knew. Somehow without really trying he got some of his works to be played in the radio, or in theaters. But his dream was to be a choirmaster in a village school (particularly in the village where my grandmother was renting a place for the summer since we remembered). My dad loved to be (literally) barefooted and close to nature for the most of the time. Camping, fishing, and walking through the forest, picking the mushrooms."

Dennis Lepsi, Grandson

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