Oskar Hekš (April 10, 1908 – March 8, 1944) was a Czechoslovak

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. Hekš was born in

Rožďalovice Rožďalovice is a town in Nymburk District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,700 inhabitants. Administrative division Rožďalovice consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 ...

, present-day

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. He competed for Czechoslovakia at the 1932 Summer Olympics and came in eighth place in the Men's Marathon. He died in the Holocaust after being transferred to and gassed at Auschwitz.

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