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Zuzana Lanc
Zuzana Lanc was was born in Liptovský Mikuláš in central Slovakia and grew up in the nearby village of Liptovské Sliače. She and her twin sister, Brona, lived with their mother, Anna Vesela, and their grandparents. Zuzana speaks fondly of her…
Zlaté Jubileum [50th Anniversary], Tělocvičné Jednoty Sokol program 1923
Zlaté Jubileum. Tělocvičné Jednoty Sokol. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 1873-1923.' Program commemorating the 50th anniversary of Cedar Rapids Sokol- Czech and English, 36 pages.
Zelmira Zivny
Zelmira Zivny was born in the village of Blšany in 1937. Zelmira’s mother grew up in Komárno on the Slovak-Hungarian border and had met Zelmira’s father while he was stationed here with the Czechoslovak Army. He then took a post teaching at a Czech…
Zdenka Novak
Zdenka Novak was born in Prague in July, 1931. She lived there until the outbreak of WWII when her parents (who owned a delicatessen in the capital) decided to return to their native Kokšín in western Bohemia. In Kokšín, Zdenka’s father Václav set…
Zdenka Necasek
Zdenka Necasek was born in February 1948 in Košt’álov, a village in the Semily region of northeastern Bohemia. Her parents ran a restaurant and butcher’s shop which the family lived above. The restaurant was called U Matoušů (meaning At the Matoušes)…
Zděnka Havlíčkova, No. 23, S.P.J. & Hvězda Pokroku, No. 4, Semi-Centennial parade photograph, 1906
Black and white photograph of Zděnka Havlíčkova, No. 23, S.P.J. (Sesterská Podporující Jednota [Sisterly Benevolent Order of Lodges]) and Hvězda Pokroku [Star of Progress], No. 4 float taken at the Cedar Rapids Semi-Centennial parade mounted on…
Zdenka Hauner-Manley
Zdenka Hauner-Manley was born in Prague in 1954. She lived in the neighborhoods of Vinohrady and Zizkov with her parents and older brother. Zdenka’s mother, a Prague native, worked as an accountant while her father, who had been born in Prague and…
Zdenek Hruban
Zdenek Hruban was born in 1921 in Přerov, Moravia. His father was a mathematics professor who had studied in Austria while Czechs were still subject to Austro-Hungarian rule. By the time Zdenek himself was old enough to attend university, WWII had…
Zdenek David
Zdenek David was born in Blatná, South Bohemia, in May 1931. He moved to Prague at age seven, however, when his father Václav (a judge) was appointed to the capital’s circuit court. Zdenek spent most of WWII in Prague and remembers his schooling…
Zdeněk Bažant
Zdeněk Pavel Bažant was born in Prague in 1937. He was raised in Prague, though during WWII he spent a long period in southern Bohemia with his aunt. His father and grandfather were engineering professors ČVUT (Czech Technical University) and his…