Alena Hájková
Czechoslovak historian
Alena Hájková (née Divišová; 11 October 1924 – 2 August 2012) was a Czech Communist resistance fighter and historian.
Resistance
Alena Divišová was born in 1924 to a working class Prague family in Vršovice. At 14, she left school and went to train as a seamstress. It was in her job that she met a Jewish friend, through whom she was introduced to a Jewish circle of the leftist movement Hashomer Hatzair. In 1943, this group of Jewish and non-Jewish Communist friends formed the resistance group Přehledy. Among them, Hájková met Jany Lebovič from the eastern part of Czechoslovakia, with whom she fell in love. When the transports to Theresienstadt started in fall 1941, Hájková and her family helped the deportees with food and preparation for the transports. Later, the gentiles in the group helped the Jewish members to avoid transports by giving them false, non-Jewish identities. Among those who had gone to hiding was Lebovič. Hájková participated in helping Jewish friends and other resistance activities: in the first months of the Terezín ghetto, she visited a few times and smuggled food to her friends.
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