Otto Wolf and Felicitas Garda papers

Otto Wolf (1927‐1945) was born in Mohelnice, Czechoslovakia to Berthold and Růžena Wolf. He was raised in Olomouc with his brother Kurt (1915‐1943) and sister Felicitas (Lici, Licka, 1920‐2006). At the outbreak of war, the Wolf family relocated to Tršice. When the Wolf family was ordered to report for deportation in the summer of 1942, they decided to hide in the woods surrounding Olomouc with the help of Jaroslav Zdařil (Slávek) and later Alois Pluhař. When these relationships deteriorated, the family moved into the attic of the home of their former maid, Maria Zbořilová, for about a year, but when her husband became too afraid of discovery, they relocated to the attic of the Ohera family in nearby Zákřov. Otto was arrested and killed in April 1945 following a raid by Soviet collaborators directed by the Gestapo to eliminate Czech partisans. His father, mother, and sister were liberated the following month and learned that his brother had been killed in battle in Sokolovo in March 1943, fighting under General Ludvik Svoboda. Felicitas married Otto Grätzer, and the family changed its name to Garda after immigrating to the United States in 1968.