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Suzanna Halsey
Suzanna Halsey was born in Karlovy Vary in western Bohemia in 1951. Her father, Alois Pakeš, was a grandson of the mayor of Písek. He studied law, but Suzanna says that his bourgeois background prevented him from practicing after the Communist coup…
St. Wenceslaus School Commencement Exercises program, 1917
Program of “Commencement Exercises of St. Wenceslaus School," 4 pages.
St. Ludmila's School program, 1943
Program for St. Ludmila’s School Program
St. Ludmila's School Expansion Building Fund Appeal, Cedar Rapids, IA, 1957
Booklet for St. Ludmila’s School Expansion Building Fund Appeal.
St. Ludmila's School 75th Anniversary booklet, Cedar Rapids, IA, 1989
Booklet of the history of St. Ludmila School, published on the school’s 75th anniversary.
Šařka Hrbkova school certificate, 1885
Certificate for Šařka Hrbkova from Matice Školská (Czech School) in Cedar Rapids, August 31, 1885, for diligence and good manners-Czech language.
Roman Prokes
Roman Prokes was born in Svitavy, a city in central Czechoslovakia, in 1960. Roman’s mother and father met after they both moved to the city following WWII, when it had been annexed by Nazi Germany as part of the Sudetenland. At the age of three,…
Robert Budway
Robert Budway was born to a Czech mother and Canadian father in Oak Park, Illinois in 1928. He became estranged from his father when the latter traveled West to find work during the Great Depression. In 1931, Robert moved to Czechoslovakia with his…
Peter Demetz
Peter Demetz was born in Prague in 1922. His mother, who was Jewish, was a seamstress and his father (of German ethnicity) worked in a theatre. When Peter was about five years old, he moved to Brno with his parents and lived there for ten years.…
Peter Breiner
Peter Breiner was born in Humenné, a city in eastern Slovakia, in 1957. His parents, Ernest and Edita, were both Holocaust survivors and his father also spent many years in a labor camp. His father managed several restaurants while his mother was a…