I come from Martinkovice near Broumov. I left Czechoslovakia as a nineteen-year-old in October 1949

To sneak out of Czechoslovakia in 1966, we had booked a late fall bus tour to Romania

When the Communists took power, I didn´t hesitate for too long. I disappeared to Germany and then to Paris.

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

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

I was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1940. The People's Court in Berlin sentences me to five years