Dreams come true against all odds
The story you are about to read is the story of a woman who is thankful for her life as well as her sister and hundreds of other people to Nicholas George...
Romance in the reality of life
Josef Větrovec‘s complex life begins to unfold on March 5, 1922 in Pilsen. He was born in the workers’ quarter, Petrohrad, which, from the end of...
An actress to her last flap
It’s not very often that a star of the silver screen leaves as little behind her as did the actress Anna Letenská. And yet her life story would...
The Diary of a Young Boy
Our stories from the Terezín Ghetto also inherently include the memories of Michal Kraus, who lost his parents in the Nazi concentration camps. It is only...
Life full of twists
Another story from the Terezín ghetto is the remembrance of a great actor and, above all, a great person Zdeněk Ornest. He was born in Kutná Hora on...
Fair-minded Man
Our next story from the Terezín ghetto is dedicated to a man who has often been referred to by those who had known him and who, like him, had experienced the hell...
He died in the place where everything began
We will speak about Karel Poláček, a native of Rychnov nad Kněžnou (born 22nd March 1892), who died on 21st January 1945 not far from...
How many lives for such a life
Pavel Vranský was born in Lipník nad Bečvou, where his mother’s father was a notary for many years. Pavel’s father Filip...
The siblings
Hana was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lustig on 20th June 1924. Her brother Arnošt was born on 21st December 1926 at 428/137 Královská Avenue (today...
Trains of second chances
Retired Lieutenant-colonel Jiří Pavel Kafka was born on 2nd May 1924 as the fi rstborn son of a Jewish lawyer. His father was twenty years older than...
Terezín, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Dachau...
Another story from the time of the Second World War is the story of a man who went through the atrocities of not only the Terezín ghetto....
Remembering me
This story is somewhat diff erent to those we have told so far. It is mainly because the leading character was only eight months old when the gate of the ghetto in...