Michal Slimák
1926–1945 (age 19)
Biography
Michal Slimák grew up in Liptovský Hrádok, and from his earliest days he absorbed the close-knit spirit of his mountain town even as dark clouds gathered over Czechoslovakia.
Though his life was cut short in 1945, those who knew him recall a young man whose warmth and steadiness kept neighbors connected through the hardest days, and whose memory still steadies the community.