Miloš Hájek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Miloš Hájek

Czech historian and university educator

Date of Birth: 12-May-1921

Place of Birth: Dětenice, Hradec Králové Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 25-Feb-2016

Profession: historian, pedagogue

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Miloš Hájek

  • Miloš Hájek (May 12, 1921 – February 25, 2016) was a Czech historian, politician and Czechoslovak resistance fighter during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945).
  • Hájek, who signed the Charter 77 human rights manifesto in 1977, became the spokesman for the Charter 77 movement in 1988.Hájek was born in Detenice, Czechoslovakia, in 1921.
  • In 1938, Nazi Germany began its occupation of Czechoslovakia.
  • Together with his later wife Alena Hájková, Hájek became involved with the Czech resistance and other anti-Nazi groups to help Jews obtain hideouts and false identity papers during World War II.
  • He was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1944 and sentenced to death in March 1945.
  • However, his execution was not carried out before the Prague uprising and the end of the German occupation.
  • He was later honored as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Israel for his work to save Jews during the Holocaust.Hájek became a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC) following the war, but opposed the KSC's party leadership throughout the country's Communist era.
  • He broke with the party's leaders during the Prague Spring in 1968 to join the reform movement.
  • He was expelled from the Communist Party following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, which ended the Prague Spring.
  • He was also fired from his job, but went into retirement because he had been a World War II resistance fighter, thanks to the help of his ex wife.In 1977, Hájek joined with a group of Czechoslovak dissidents, including Václav Havel, to sign the Charter 77 human rights manifesto. Miloš Hájek died in Prague on February 25, 2016, at the age of 94.
  • His granddaughter Anna is a Holocaust historian at the University of Warwick.

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