My dad was with the partisans during the war, most of his family fled to Israel
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Stasha Hart, née Stanislava Astrugová, was born on August 1, 1950, in Prague as the only child in a Jewish family. Her father, Benjamin Astrug, was Jewish and came from Bulgaria. In the 1930s, he was a well-known soccer player. After World War II, he came to Prague to study and later worked as a sound engineer. He participated in the production of a number of Czechoslovakian children’s television programs. Stasha Hart grew up in Prague and attended high school at Červený vrch on Arabská Street. She first went to England on an exchange program in 1966, graduated from high school in 1968, and then went to London for a year as an au pair. After returning, she began studying Czech and English at Charles University, specializing in Slavic languages. After graduating in 1974, she married her long-time boyfriend Antony Hart and emigrated to London. She worked for a marine insurance company. Her mother died in 1977, and her father visited her regularly in England. In November 1989, she happened to be on a business trip to Prague and experienced part of the Velvet Revolution there. In 2025, Stasha Hart lived in London.
