Ledererová, Elzbieta

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Elzbieta Lederer was born on 15 July 1922 in the Polish historical town of Lower Kazimierz. She studied philology. At the beginning of the 1960s in Poland, she met a distinguished personality of Czech journalism, Jiří Lederer. In 1967 they married and moved to Prague. She wrote in several prestigious Polish newspapers and translated materials. She also worked with the Polish Cultural and Information Center. Alongside her husband, she also took an active part in the social life and events that culminated in the Prague Spring. After the invasion of the allied troops into Czechoslovakia, like her husband, she was subjected to persecution. In the 1970s, Jiri Lederer strongly engaged in the Czechoslovak opposition. For this activity he was imprisoned several times, so his wife became part of the Czech dissent. Like her husband, Elzbieta Lederero signed Charter 77. In 1978, Ledererová was among the seventeen founding members of the VONS (Defense Committee of Unjustly Prosecuted). She was the only member who did not have Czechoslovak citizenship. After the release of her husband from prison, the family was assigned by the State Security to Asanace, a campaign set by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia to force out unwanted people, particularly those who had signed Charter 77. Under pressure and the threat that Elizbiter Lederer as a Polish citizen would not be able to extend her stay in Czechoslovakia, the family emigrated to West Germany. Jiří Lederer actively participated in the activities of exile but died in 1983. After 1989, Mrs. Lederero did not return to Poland but to Czechoslovakia. Elizbieta Ledererová received the Václav Benda Award in 2014, which is awarded by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. She died on 27 May 2017 and is buried with her husband in Bad Birnbach, Bavaria.

Location

Birnbach, Germany
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Poland
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Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
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Birth place

Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

Birth date

1932

Date of death

2017

Creator at

Owner of

Jiří Lederer Collection of the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

Author(s) of this page

Hanáková, Jitka

Member of

Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS)

References

Ceska Televize; mailto:internet@ceskatelevize.cz. (n.d.). Ještě jsem tady: Elzbieta Ledererová? Česká televize. Retrieved from http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1059542845-jeste-jsem-tady/203562253100009-elzbieta-ledererova/

Slavnostní předání Ceny Václava Bendy 2014 – Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ustrcr.cz/o-nas/cena-vaclava-bendy/slavnostni-predani-ceny-vaclava-bendy-2014/

V 85 letech zemřela signatářka Charty 77 Elzbieta Ledererová. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/439366-v-85-letech-zemrela-signatarka-charty-77-elzbieta-ledererova.html

KANTŮRKOVÁ, Eva. Sešly jsme se v této knize : Olga Havlová, Marie Rút Křížková, Elzbieta Ledererová, Zdena Tominová, G. Sekaninová-Čakrtová, Anna Šabatová, Věra Jirousová, Jiřina Hrábková, Jarmila Bělíková, Libuše Šilhánová, Dana Němcová, Marta Kubišová, Eva Kantůrková. Praha: Toužimský & Moravec, 1991. 193 s.

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