page_title: Vojtěch Preissig
section_title: Membership in Czech resistance
hierarchical_section_title: Vojtěch Preissig / Life / Membership in Czech resistance
caption_attribution_description: English: Registration card of Vojtěch Preissig as a prisoner at Dachau Nazi Concentration Camp. The stamped cross signals the day of his death.
context_page_description: Vojtěch Preissig was a Czech typographer, printmaker, designer, illustrator, painter and teacher. He studied in Prague at the School of Applied Industrial Art from 1892 to 1896 and at the School of Decorative Architecture from 1897 to 1898.
context_section_description: Preissig, along with his daughter Irena Bernášková, supported the Czech resistance during both World Wars and was arrested in 1940 for doing graphic design work for one of the most important magazines of the resistance, called V boj ("Into the Fight"), that had been outlawed by German authorities. He died on 11 June 1944 in Dachau concentration camp.
caption: Registration card of Vojtěch Preissig as a prisoner at Dachau Nazi Concentration Camp
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