WWII in Vysoke Myto

The inhabitants of this small town in eastern Bohemia keep the records of the town's history by the means of the most persistent medium of them all - in stone. From a part of the town walls in the local Jungmann's Park, you can read all about how the town lived through the Second World War.

Here, you will find out, that during three wartime years (1939-1942), an illegal communist student group worked at the former grammar school and that, in the last four months of the war in Europe, a guerilla group under Major Krylov, or Charitonov, fought in the town's neighbourhood.

One of the weathered stone desks bears also the sad report of the Jewish population of Vysoke Myto and the surrounding villages, all of whom were on 5th and 9th December, 1942, taken away to the concentration camps, where only 7 of the original 45 people lived to see the liberation...

Other pages of this stone chronicle can be seen here.
On 5th May, 1945, the citizenship of Vysoke Myto rose to fight the German intruders and assumed the control of the town. Taking over the town was eventually postponed to 9th May, 1945, when the people of the town, along with a unit of the great Red Army disarmed the German garrison and liberated the town after six years of occupation.
On 9th May, 1945, the great Red Army entered the town and gave help to the citizens. Thus, the town was, after six years of occupation, taken from the German grasp.
A memorial to students murdered during the Second World War (Otmar Vanorny Square in front of the local grammar school)
On 16th March, 1939, the German Nazi garrison broke into the town. During its six-years stay the town was subdued and cruelly persecuted. Twenty of its best sons lost their lives for the nation's freedom. The German occupation lasted until 9th May, 1945.