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Joan Zizek
Joan Zizek was born in 1941 in Pardubice, eastern Bohemia. Her parents, Jaroslav and Růžena, had grown up in the small village of Buček, but moved to Pardubice when her father was offered a job as an agricultural bookkeeper. While still a young girl,…
Josef Pecháček and Marie Větrovská marriage certificate, 1902
‘Oddaci list’ Marriage certificate of Josef Pecháček and Marie Větrovská, married February 10, 1902, diocese of Varnsdorf. Issued May 5, 1906 in Prague-Czech language.
Tags: 1902, Czech language, document, marriage
Joseph Pritasil
Joseph Pritasil was born in Miřetice, eastern Bohemia, in 1925. He was one of seven children raised on a farm by his father, Antonin, and mother, Anežka. Joseph says he had to walk three and a half miles to school on a daily basis and, on Sunday, the…
Karel Kaiser
Karel Kaiser was born in Domažlice in 1932 and grew up in nearby Kdyně. In 1938, he moved to Prague with his father and two older sisters – Karel’s mother had died shortly prior to the move. Upon graduation from high school, he studied architecture…
Katya Heller
Katya Heller was born in Prague in 1960 to an American mother and Czech father. Her mother, Joy, had left the United States in 1947 to travel to Europe with hopes of going to the Soviet Union, but decided to stay in Prague. She then met Katya’s…
Kloubec wedding dance invitation, North Liberty, IA, 1939
Invitation for Kloubec Sisters of North Liberty, Iowa to the wedding dance of Mr. & Mrs. Fred Kloubec, Thursday, September, 14, 1939, held at C.S.P.S. Hall in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Tags: 1939, Cedar Rapids, invitation, Iowa, Kloubec, marriage, North Liberty
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
Kveta Gregor-Schlosberg
Kveta Gregor-Schlosberg was born in Jičín, northeastern Bohemia, in 1925. Her mother’s family owned the chateau, Čeřov Jicin, in which she was born, and Kveta describes her childhood there as a ‘fairy tale.’ Kveta began ballet lessons in Jičín when…
Tags: 1948, Arrest, Arts, Cerov Jicin, emigrant, Jicin, marriage, Plzen, refugee, World War II
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…
Marriage certificate- Hajny & Letovsky, February 14, 1900?
Marriage certificate of Josephine M. M. Hajny & John B. Letovsky, February 14, 1900?
Tags: 1900, Cedar Rapids, document, Iowa, marriage