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Lubomir Hromadka was born in Folvark in 1926, and grew up in Jičín in northeastern Bohemia. His parents František and Julie owned a pub near Jičín, in the area known as Český raj [Bohemian Paradise]. Lubomir’s father had been in the Czechoslovak…

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Luke Vanis was born in Prague in 1971. His mother, Dagmar, was a high school math and art teacher and a freelance designer, and his father, Leo, was an art professor at Charles University. Luke’s parents divorced when he was young and his mother…

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Magda Mraz was born in Liberec in northern Bohemia in 1948 and grew up in Chomutov with her parents and younger brother. Magda’s mother, Milada, was of Czech ethnicity but grew up in southern Slovakia where her father owned several successful hotels.…

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Majda Kallab Whitaker was born in Prague in 1946 to her father, Jiří, and mother, Aloisie. She has two older sisters, Valeriana and Anna. Her father was in New York City at the time of her birth helping re-establish trade ties between Czechoslovakia…

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Marek Eisler was born in Prague in 1980. His father, John, was an architect who worked at SIAL studios while his mother, Eva, was a designer who came to be known for her jewelry in particular. Marek was raised alongside his older brother in the…

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 Marek Soltis was born in Prešov in eastern Slovakia in 1969. He grew up with his parents, Ondrej and Maria, and his younger brother and sister. Marek and his family lived with his maternal grandparents in Rokycany for several years while his parents…

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Martin Holub was born in Prague in 1938. His father, Ján, was a lawyer who, after the Communist coup in 1948, was not allowed to continue practicing and sent to work at a cement factory. He later worked in a photography lab and then as a librarian at…

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Meda Mládková was born in Zákupy, northern Bohemia, where her father was the director of a brewery. Her family moved to Brandýs nad Labem, a town close to Prague, a few years after she was born. Meda says that she saw ‘horrible things’ at the end of…

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Milena Kalinovska was born in Prague in 1948. Her maternal grandparents emigrated from the Soviet Union following the Russian Revolution due to their anti-communist views, and her grandfather became a librarian who started the Slavonic collection at…

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 Milos Stehlik was born in Slaný, central Bohemia, in 1949 but raised in the nearby town of Plchov. His father (also called Milos) emigrated before he was born and so he was raised by his mother, Jindra, and his maternal grandparents. Milos’s mother…
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