One month ago today I launched this website and blog for my late husband’s memoir – his life in the Czech resistance during World War II and the Cold War. It was May 11, Charles’ birthday – a magnificent “opening day.” I couldn’t help thinking – what am I getting myself into? Everyone said I …
We made a serious mistake by killing Heydrich in Bohemian territory; the reprisals were too awful. — Charles Novacek, Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance Seventy years later historians still debate the Czech resistance’s assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich during World War II. Was it the right thing to do or …
“Heydrich came to murder the Czech nation, and the Czech nation murdered him.” —Professor Václav Černý Today is Monday, May 27 – Memorial Day in the United States, a time to honor Americans who have died in all wars. Interestingly, May 27 is a day in the former Czechoslovakia when many people honor those who …
“How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.” —Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, broadcast at the outbreak of World War II (before leaving on September 27, 1938 for a meeting with …
What do these three things have in common: a widow, a memoir and the Czech Resistance? The Answer is: the subjects of this blog and the stories I will be telling you in future blog posts. A widow, that’s me. And this is the day I became one – July 13, 2007. On this day …
