Ján Nálepka

Ján Nálepka
Nickname"Repkin"
Born(1912-09-20)20 September 1912
Smižany, Slovakia
(now Slovakia)
Died16 November 1943(1943-11-16) (aged 31)
Ovruch, Axis powers-occupied Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Buried
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Allegiance Czechoslovakia (1934–1939)
Slovak Republic (1939–1943)
Soviet Union (1943)
Service years1934–1943
RankCaptain, brigadier general (posthumously)
ConflictsWorld War II
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union
Hero of the Slovak National Uprising

Ján Nálepka (20 September 1912 in Szepessümeg, Kingdom of Hungary – 16 November 1943 in Ovruch, Axis powers-occupied Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) was a Slovak captain who organized and led an anti-fascist Slovak partisan detachment in the Soviet Union during World War II.

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