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Vasil Timkovič (21 March 1923 – 2 January 2023) was a Czechoslovak veteran of World War II, who fought for the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Soviet Union in the Battle of Kiev and the Battle of the Dukla Pass.[1] He was one of the last living witnesses of the fighting on the Eastern Front.[2]
Biography
editTimkovič was born in 1923 in the village of Skotarskoje in Carpathian Ruthenia (then part of Czechoslovakia).[3]
Before joining the army, Timkovič survived a gulag. He was a veteran of the Liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945.[4]
Timkovič died on 2 January 2023, aged 99, and was buried on 13 January 2023 with military honours in Česká Třebová.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Vasil Timkovič". Memory of Nations. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ "Zemřel válečný veterán Vasil Timkovič. Vstup do armády jej vykoupil z gulagu, bojoval u Kyjeva i na Dukle". ČT24 (in Czech). Czech Television. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ "Vasil Timkovič (1923 - 2023)". pametnaroda.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "Přežil ruský gulag i válku, domů ho komunisté už nikdy nepustili. Příběh Vasila Timkoviče je téměř zapomenut". ČT24 (in Czech). Czech Television. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
- ^ Česká Třebová se rozloučila s čestným občanem města a válečným hrdinou, retrieved 23 January 2023
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