Antonín Kalina [SEP] place of birth
Antonín Kalina
Antonín Kalina (17 February 1902, Třebíč – 1 January 1990, Prague) was a Czechoslovak citizen who was imprisoned during World War II in the Buchenwald concentration camp. There, he managed to save the lives of more than 900 children. He was awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations in 2012. The Czech president Miloš Zeman awarded him with Medal of Merit two years later.
Biography.
Kalina was born in Třebíč as one of twelve children of a shoemaker and he himself learnt this craft.
Combustion Physics has been conferred on him in 2005 (Institute of Physics).
As a survivor of Nazi concentration camps he was highly critical of fraudulent Holocaust memoirs: 'I have always tended to avoid Holocaust literature and find some of the recent fictional accounts masquerading as true stories profoundly disturbing.' His own account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps 'Boy 30529: A Memoir', was published in 2013, shortly after his death. He was one of 900 children rescued by Antonín Kalina, a Czech citizen who