Grajzel, Ján

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Ján Grajzel

* 03.02.1920 Zvolen

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Born 3.2.1920 Zvolen


In Zvolen he graduated from the municipal school and 2 classes of the burgher school, then he started to learn to be a roofer, but before graduation he moved with his parents to the Ostrava region.


Jan worked as a labourer in Karlova Hut


1941 he received a call from the Slovak army to enlist, but he did not respond to it


1942 he was involved in the resistance and when the arrests of his collaborators began he decided to hide in the Slovak army


1.10.1942 conscripted to the Slovak army and assigned to basic training at the 11th Artillery Regiment


16.11.1942 sent to the liaison course and trained as an artillery radio operator


March 1943 rejoins his unit and goes with it to Italy for technical work in the Capandocia area


6.3.1944 defects from the Slovak army, gets to the Czechoslovak collection camp near Naples, reports to the Czechoslovak army. Army


By December 1944 recruited into intelligence group to be sent to occupied Czechoslovakia, trained as a radio operator, assigned to EMBASSY group, underwent special diversionary courses, para course, intelligence courses


On 21.12.1944 he was dropped with EMBASSY group near Prostějovice in Prostějov district. The task of the group was to act as an intelligence agency in the area of Eastern Moravia, the group split after the jump and Grajzel advanced towards Hranice in Moravia alone


On 22.12.1944 in Prostějov he approached a gendarme and asked for help, but was betrayed by him and arrested by the Gestapo in Olomouc


Late 1944 he was imprisoned in Olomouc and Brno, then transferred to Dachau Concentration Camp and then Flossenburg


May 1945, as part of repatriation, returns from the KT back to his homeland


1.6.1945 - 7.1.1946 radio operator of the instruction battalion


8.1.1946 transferred to the reserve



Source: http://www.bojovnici.cz/?page=aktuality
http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operace_Embassy
http://www.lib.cas.cz/parasut/grajzel.htm
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