Helena Vovsová

Helena Vovsová (12 February 1926 – 6 April 2026) was a Czech resistance member during the Nazi German occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Biography Vovsová was born on Štvanice island on 12 February 1926, and raised by her family in Panenské Břežany.

Following the annexation of Czechoslovakia and the establishment of the occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Vovsová, who was just 15 years old at the time, began working at Prague Castle, the official residence of the Nazi German Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, where she first worked under Konstantin von Neurath and then for the notorious SS officer, Reinhard Heydrich. Vovsová helped the Czech and Czech Jewish prisoners who were forced to work at the castle. The castle's Jewish prisoners were forced to live in a stable on the Prague Castle's grounds and were forbidden to have contact with non-Jewish Czechoslovak employees. Vovsová risked her life by smuggling food and other provisions to the Jewish prisoners, including medicine and flea repellent, past SS guards guarding the stable.

Vovsová died on 6 April 2026, at the age of 100. Her death was announced in the Memory of Nations, a Prague-based archive run by the Post Bellum non-profit organization.