Miroslav Kárný

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Miroslav Kárný (September 9, 1919 — May 9, 2001) was an historian and writer from Prague, Czechoslovakia. He studied history at the Charles University of Prague between 1937-39. In this time, he became member of the students' communist organisation Kostufra. Due to his Jewish origin, in November 1941 he was deported to the Theresienstadt, ghetto. Here he met his later wife, Margita Krausova. Margita and Miroslav were active in the Communist resistance group in Theresienstadt. In autumn 1944, they both were deported to Auschwitz. From here, Kárný was deported for slave labour to the auxiliary camp Kaufering of the Dachau concentration camp.

After the war, he became a journalist and then a freelance historian, specializing in the Holocaust and German fascism.[1]

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  1. ^ Berenbaum, Michael & Gutman, Yisrael (eds). Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Indiana University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1994); this edition 1998. ISBN 0-253-20884-X
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