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Tag: Karel Novacek

August 13, 2017
A Sister, an Architect, and an 80 Year Old Building

A Sister, an Architect, and an 80 Year Old Building

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 …

Today is Charles’ Name Day!

Today is Charles’ Name Day!

November 4, 2014

Pictured above are Charles’ grandfather Karel Novacek, uncle Karel Novacek and grandmother Maria Novacek at home in Tasov.  name day  noun the feast day of the saint after whom a person is named the day on which a person is christened “Antonín, my father, was born on June 2, 1896, in a village called Tasov, …

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