The Heroine of the Week Is Inka Bernášková

Along with her father, graphic artist and painter Vojtěch Preissig, she published an illegal magazine called V boj. After being arrested she showed great personal bravery by not giving up any names of other members of the resistance, probably saving their lives. She herself, however, was executed.

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