Zdeňka Pokorná

[1] She opposed the Habsburg, Nazi and Soviet Union occupations of her homeland and following the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état she was forced into exile to the United Kingdom, where she lived the rest of her life.

Born in Břeclav in 1905, Pokorná was a member of the anti-Nazi Czech Resistance Movement who, following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, helped a group of people to escape to Yugoslavia.

[2][3] Expelled from her position as headmistress in Břeclav after the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état because of her anti-Soviet stance, she avoided impending arrest by escaping to Austria.

[2] Pokorná was awarded the Czechoslovak Order of Merit (First Class) by President Václav Havel for her outstanding work for her home country and for upholding the ideals of freedom.

Zdeňka Pokorná died in London in 2007 aged 101[4] and was cremated at Honor Oak Crematorium following which her ashes were buried in the Czechoslovak section of Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.