Eva Jahoda
It was in 1951, when I was born in the former Czechoslovakia, in the most beautiful historical
Read moreIt was in 1951, when I was born in the former Czechoslovakia, in the most beautiful historical
Read moreI remember when I was about ten years old, my grandfather stood up extra tall and proudly declared
Read moreI was born on December 13, 1946, in Prostějov, as the third of four children. Mom was
Read moreMy story began on March 25, 1916, in a small village called Peklo near Rychnov. A boy, František
Read moreI was born in 1946 in Banská Bystrica. My father was a lawyer. In June 1964
Read moreIt surprised me how easily I decided to leave Czechoslovakia. It first occurred to me shortly after
Read moreI am the oldest son of Miroslav Hruška and Marta Hruška (nee Krobathova). I am not a refugee from Czechoslovakia
Read moreMy wife Olga and I both graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Olomouc
Read moreI was born on April 25, 1949, in Havlíčkův Brod. My father was a doctor, mother a housewife, later
Read moreI was born in Vienna in 1923, but my family lived moved to Prague when I was less than three years old
Read moreHow was my journey from the hometown of Pačlavice to South America in 1929: It started on January 20
Read moreNarodil jsem se 1. prosince 1929 v Kloboukách u Brna, chodil jsem do německé školy
Read moreI was born on July 23, 1916, in Rousínov, as the last of four children
Read moreI was born on October 14, 1923 in Hranice na Morave as the only child to Josefa
Read moreI was born on January 17, 1924 in Oldřichovice in Silesia as the fourth of five children. I grew up on
Read moreMy name is Peter Seligman and I was born in 1944. My father Richard Seligmann escaped from Czechoslovakia
Read moreI was born in 1950 in Prague, where I lived until 1968. When the Warsaw Pact armies
Read moreI was born into a Jewish family in the middle of World War II in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Read moreA brave, hard-working man whose dreams and desires were taken away by fate
Read moreI was born on May 7, 1943 in Prague – Nusle where the end of war and the liberation reached us – me and
Read moreI was born on June 1, 1950 in Naples, Italy. It was in Naples in a private Clinic
Read moreI was born in Trutnov on October 11, 1936. My close relationship to music started
Read moreI was born in Brno on July 10, 1924, to a family with two older sisters
Read moreI was born in Hostasovice on 1st December 1912. At the age of fourteen, I joined the Bata
Read moreI was born in 1944 in Bubenec, Prague to Josef (Pepik) Krejzar and Zdenka Prochazkova.
Read moreI was born on June 6, 1943 in the city of Pilsen. On the ground floor was my father’s private medical practice
Read moreTen years after the failure of the Prague Spring and the onset of "normalization", after ten years of control, spying
Read moreMy brother was born in 1940, and I three years later.
Read moreI come from Martinkovice near Broumov. I left Czechoslovakia as a nineteen-year-old in October 1949
Read moreTo sneak out of Czechoslovakia in 1966, we had booked a late fall bus tour to Romania
Read moreWhen the Communists took power, I didn´t hesitate for too long. I disappeared to Germany and then to Paris.
Read moreI have lived in Tahiti with my wife Anna since 1925. I held various administrative positions, and I did some business, but in the end
Read moreMy name is Dana Jones (born Dana Daczicky z Heslova). I was born in Prague in 1945, at the very end of World War Two.
Read moreFather said we were going into the exile. He said he was wrong when, two years before, he turned down the chance to emigrate with us to the United States
Read moreI was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1940. The People's Court in Berlin sentences me to five years
Read more“I was born on August 20, 1886, when my older brother Josef was already 4. Over 20 years, our Mother gave birth to 9 children
Read more"My father founded the automobile factory Aero and later also took an interest in aviation. I decided to follow in his footsteps
Read more"I was young back then and I didn’t see the appeal of staying in one city for too long. I had an adventurous spirit; I wanted to see the world
Read more"I was born in the spring of 1936 in Ashiya, Japan as the only son of a Czechoslovak diplomat, Jan Fierlinger. As the war was drawing near, my father was ordered to return to Czechoslovakia."
Read more"About a week before the end of the war, in May 1945, I became a partisan. We ambushed a Sokol gymnasium in Nový Bydžov, where the Germans kept their weapons
Read more"Even though I’m Czech, in 1922, when I was born – just a year after my sister Vlasta – our family was living in Warsaw
Read more"After I completed military training, I got a job at the Ministry of Finance; they sent me to Cheb, since I knew the German language
Read more"From the very start, the problem I had in the communistic Czechoslovakia was that my parents encouraged us to be honest and truthful. We wouldn’t be deterred, even when they fired my father from the police force and he could only work as an unqualified labourer after
Read more"I was born near the small village of Mlynske Struhadlo in southern Bohemia on April 13, 1937, as the youngest of 3 sons in a family of millers. Flosman´s Mill had been in the family for generations and it was the life blood of the surrounding villages
Read more"My grandfather Jan — or Juan, as he his known locally — Osyčka came from Moravia but life brought him all the way to Argentina. He was there when the Czechoslovak agricultural colony was established."
Read more"Growing up, it did not even cross my mind that I would witness so much sorrow and live through the Terezin concentration camp. If you wanted to survive in the ghetto, you had to suppress your feelings and work very hard."
Read more“Our most beautiful and earliest memories are of playing games together in the garden with stones and paths of yellow sand. After the war, everything started to change, and as father inferred, not in a positive direction.”
Read more“My name is Peter Messner, and this German name has helped me several times, even though I am Jewish. Before the war, we lived in Czechoslovakia, and when Hitler came to power in Germany, my foresighted father decided to emigrate.”
Read more“The Nazis shot my husband in Terezín right in front of my eyes. Then they transported the rest of the family to Auschwitz. In the end, my sister and I were the only ones to survive the hell of the concentration camp.”
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