Four who fought Nazism honoured with Memory of Nation Award

Four people who fought Nazism were honoured with the Memory of the Nation Award at a ceremony at Prague’s National Theatre on Tuesday evening. The prizes went to Anna Hyndráková, the only member of her family to survive the Nazi concentration camps; Lýdia Kovářová, who along with her family helped hide a resistance group; Branislav Tvarožek, who also aided the resistance and fought in the Slovak National Uprising; and Viktor Wellemín, who fled with his Jewish family to Palestine and joined a Czechoslovak unit that fought in Tobruk and was later injured in Dunkirk. The awards are presented every year by the civic association Post Bellum.