You did everything you could so that I lose my daughter, my mum said during an interrogation after I emigrated.
Jana Vydrová, née Schmausová, was born on October 6, in Prague. She has a sister Helena, who is a year and a half older. Jana’s great grandfather was the important inventor František Křižík, who died when she was two. Her father, Gustav Schmaus, graduated of the music conservatory, her mother came from a business family, played tennis and rode a horse. In 1939, Gustav Schmaus and his colleague bought, from a Jewish businessman, a factory in Pilsen. In the same year they moved to Bechyně, where they spent the war relatively peacefully in the family villa. In 1945 they moved to Pilsen and saw the city being liberated by U. S. troops, with some of whom they established lifelong friendships. In 1948 her father’s business was nationalised by the communists and the family property seized. The family moved to Prague. Gustav Schmaus returned to music and played the violoncello in the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, while her mother trained as an accountant, but was sacked after a year due to he ...
Czech emigration in the United States
Born in Borovo in the former Yugoslavia on 16 March 1935
Spent his childhood and World War II in Zlín-Podvesná
Joined the 3rd Unit of Junák boy scouts in Zlín and made his ...
Born in Borovník on 12 March 1938
Her father František Volný was the mayor of Borovník
The family owned extensive land
František Volný was declared a kulak in 1953
He ...
Born in Žirovnice near Pelhřimov on 14 May 1950
Having completed high school he graduated from the Charles University in dentistry
Graduated from the Comenius University in ...
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12.11.2018.
Dne 17. listopadu 2018 převezmou v Národním divadle v přímém přenosu České televize, slovenské RTVS a Českého rozhlasu Ceny Paměti národa čtyři výjimečné osobnosti.
01.11.2018., Tisková zpráva Post Bellum
Dne 11. listopadu slavíme Den válečných veteránů. Lidé si v tento den lidé připínají na klopy kvítek vlčího máku. Vyjadřují tím úctu těm, kteří bojovali za svobodu za první a druhé světové války nebo vojákům působícím v zahraničních vojenských misích.
12.06.2018., Tisková zpráva Post Bellum
Děkujeme všem, kteří běželi, pomáhali nám jako dobrovolníci, podpořili akci jako partneři a patroni. Díky vám jsme na další nahrávání vzpomínek pro Paměť národa vybrali 650 000 korun! V Praze, Plzni, Olomouci, Hradci Králové, Třebíči a „kdekoli“ se na start postavilo 1600 lidí. Moc nás to těší.