Category:Marie Brychová Maturová

English: Marie Brychová, née Maturová (* 29 June 1893 Brandýs nad Labem - † 24 October 1942 Mauthausen concentration camp) was the wife of the merchant Jan Brych. She had three offspring with her husband. The eldest son was Jan Brych (* 2 March 1912 Prague - † 24 October 1942 Mauthausen concentration camp), the middle daughter was Marie Brychová the younger (* 8 June 1914 Prague - † 24 October 1942 Mauthausen concentration camp), the youngest descendant was the son Josef Brych (* 7 September 1918 Prague - † 24 October 1942 Mauthausen concentration camp). Marie Brychová (* 1893) was a member of the domestic Sokol anti-German resistance during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, collaborated with Jan Zelenka Hajský and participated in hiding a radio, which was later found by the Gestapo in her apartment. Marie Brychová (*1893) was arrested in the evening of 23 June 1942. She was imprisoned in the Small Fortress of Terezín from where she was transported to the Mauthausen concentration camp on 23 October 1942 and murdered there on 24 October 1942 at 8:34 a.m. by a shot from a small-calibre pistol in the back of the head in the sniper's corner of the Mauthausen "bunker" during a fictitious medical examination.