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Monika Smid
Monika Smid was born in the village of Hájske, western Slovakia, in 1950. Her father, Vilém, spent the week in Bratislava where he worked in construction, while her mother, Maria, stayed at home raising Monika and her five siblings and tending to the…
Milly Voris
Milly Voris was born in Bělčice, Bohemia, in 1924. Her father, Václav, was an architect and realtor while her mother, Kamila, stayed at home raising Milly and her younger brother, also called Václav. Growing up, Milly says her family played an…
Mila Kyncl
Mila Kyncl was born in Trhový Štěpánov, Bohemia, in 1935. her father was a businessman and worked the land that their family owned while her mother stayed at home to raise Mila. During WWII, Mila says German troops occupied her home, which was very…
Melania Rakytiak
Melania Rakytiak was born in Paris in March 1936. Her father was a Slovak laborer at a furniture factory while her mother, also Slovak, was a maid in the home of a wealthy French family. Melania’s mother died when she was only 10 months old. Her aunt…
Tags: 1968, 1968 emigrant/refugee, Catholicism, Catholics, Cierna Voda, Communist coup, Communist Party members, Divorce, Education, Family life, local, Lutherans, marriage, Marxism, Politics, Prague Spring, Refugee camp, school, Strecanska, Stredna pedagogicka skola, Surovce, Teachers, Warsaw Pact invasion, Women workers, World War II
Marie Cada
Marie Cada was born in the small village of Komorovice, southeastern Bohemia, in 1919. She became an orphan at a young age and spent her early teenage years looking after the family farm with her brother Václav. Marie went to school in nearby…
Maria Sefcik
Maria Sefcik was born in Nové Zámky, Slovakia, in 1922. Her father, Bohumil, was a civil servant who had been posted to the region. When Maria was less than two years old, however, she moved with her parents back to the family home of Ratenice,…
Magda Mraz
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.…
Tags: Arts, Education, Jachymov, Mrazova, Ostrov nad Ohri, Women workers, WWII
Luba DeWitt
Luba DeWitt was born in Nitra, a city in eastern Slovakia, in 1957. Her father, Michal, was a high-up intelligence official while her mother, Božena, was an office clerk in the police department. Luba lived with her mother and younger sister in Nitra…
Kveta Eakin
Kveta Eakin was born in Karlovy Vary, in western Bohemia, in 1956. When she was 18 months old, however, she moved with her mother to her maternal grandparents’ home in Brno, Moravia. Her father, Arnošt, was a successful agricultural engineer, who…
Tags: 1968, Divorce, Education, emigrant, Helsinki Accords, Kankova, marriage, Prague Spring, refugee, Simunkova, Vcelka, Women workers
Jitka Exler
Jitka Exler was born in Karlovy Vary, in western Bohemia, in 1959. She grew up with her parents, Václav and Věra, and her older sister, Blanka, in the nearby town of Ostrov nad Ohří, which Jitka describes as a ‘showcase communist town.’ Although…
Tags: Arts, Charter 77, Education, Family life, Kudrlickova, marriage, Ohri, Women workers