Josef Krtil
1921–1987 (age 66)
Biography
Josef Krtil was born in 1921 and died in 1987, living through one of history's most consequential periods. He experienced the final years of the Czechoslovak Republic, the Nazi occupation, the post-war reconstruction, and the communist era.
Krtil's life embodied the fortitude required of those who endured the twentieth century's greatest upheavals in Central Europe. He rests at Olšany Cemetery, among countless others who shaped the region's history.