Marek Frauwirth was a leftist activist (but not even slightly a communist) and in the autumn of 1939 he was a non-diplomatic staff of the Slovak consulate in Prague. He spent his youth in Tvrdošín and graduated from secondary school in Banská Bystrica. After several jobs in Bratislava and Carpathian Ruthenia, he earned his studies in Prague since 1932. From 1935 he studied at the College of Business (then part of the Czech Technical University), he completed his first studies as a commercial engineer in spring 1939. He was also involved in the distribution of resistance leaflets and anti-German printed materials the same year. On the day of the funeral of student Jan Opletal, he had lost his briefcase with anti-Nazi flyers inside. Perhaps on the basis of this finding, he was arrested in his residence in Jilská Street on 17 November 1939 by the Gestapo and executed the same day without trial in the former artillery barracks in Prague - Ruzyně.
The Initiative A participated in the unveiling of the Stone of the Disappeared. The initiative ( A stands for Anthropoid) is an informal free association of several historians and researchers, whose aim is to commemorate the forgotten heroes of the second resistance. In the last four years, Anthropoid colleagues have been able to reveal 19 new commemorative plaques. In cooperation with ČsOL, a successful outdoor exhibition “Anthropoid” was prepared in 2017, which was then installed at 18 locations in Prague, Czech and Moravian cities, or in Mauthausen, Austria. With participation of the Initiative A, new streets in Vysočany district are gradually getting named after slaughtered families of resistance fighters.
Photo: The A Iniciative
