Last Sunday I exhibited Charles’ book, Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance at an Author’s Fair celebrating local authors, Detroit-centered books, and the city of Detroit. Charles was a Detroit immigrant, engineer, artist and writer and worked and lived in the city for 50+ years. I figured his book was qualified to be there. While preparing for …
Charles (Karel) Novacek, 1947 Vlasta Jakubová, the sister of my late husband Charles (Karel) Novacek was born on March 13, 1925 in Oždany, Slovakia. During World War II she was engaged in the Czech resistance as a contact to her uncle, Colonel Josef Robotka. After February 1948, she joined the anticommunist resistance, again working with her …
Serious illness this fall has kept me at home and given me the opportunity to sift through files of old correspondence. Much of it is related to my late husband Charles and his memoir and is sentimental in nature. . . old love letters, ticket stubs, postcards. . . Although I’ve gone through and thrown …
In my online research I found “White Blossoms,” an opinion piece by Milan Hanuš.* The subject was Charles’ sister Vlasta and the pain she experienced while being imprisoned for her work in the Czech Resistance during the Cold War. Hanuš declared how shameful it is that the Czech public doesn’t listen more to those who deserve to …
It seems everyone’s gone crazy over tomorrow’s total eclipse. The program director of the National Science Foundation has said, “There’s never been an event like this in human history where so many people could participate and with such unique technology.” It’s the celestial event of a lifetime in the U.S.! To avoid chaos, the library …
I keep thinking about Charles‘ sister Vlasta Marie Nováčková Jakubová (1925-2017). Sadly, she died this year at the age of ninety-two. Vlasta was three years older than Charles and started her work in the Czech anti-Nazi resistance at age fourteen during World War II. She worked for her uncle Josef Robotka’s Rada Tri (R-3) guerilla organization. She …
