Věra Waldes

Věra Waldes - Hromádková (3 June 1914 – 24 November 1995) was a prominent fighter in communist anti-nazi resistance in Paris during World War II.

She refused to emigrate to the United States with her family and instead joined anti-nazi resistance in France.

[citation needed] In Paris she met and married one of the leaders of Czech resistance in Paris region, Otakar Hromádko.

After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, she attempted to regain a part of her family property in the Czech Republic.

[2] In 2009 courts found in favor of the Waldes' restitution claim concerning the Koh-i-noor snap button factory in Prague, which was seized, along with twenty paintings, in 1939 during the Nazi occupation; however in 2010 the Constitution Court overturned the ruling.