Stephen Gaertner
To sneak out of Czechoslovakia in 1966, we had booked a late fall bus tour to Romania
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To sneak out of Czechoslovakia in 1966, we had booked a late fall bus tour to Romania
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When the Communists took power, I didn´t hesitate for too long. I disappeared to Germany and then to Paris.
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I have lived in Tahiti with my wife Anna since 1925. I held various administrative positions, and I did some business, but in the end
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My name is Dana Jones (born Dana Daczicky z Heslova). I was born in Prague in 1945, at the very end of World War Two.
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Father 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
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I was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1940. The People's Court in Berlin sentences me to five years
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"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
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"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
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"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."
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