In June of 1945, seventeen year old Charles completed his second year of mechanical engineering study in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He was making up for time lost during the war years, 1944-1945. His Uncle Josef Robotka asked Charles to live with his nephew Jiři. Jiri needed a math tutor and someone like Charles to influence him to study regularly. By November Charles was feeling homesick …
Karel (Charles) Novacek was nearly seventeen years old when on May 9, 1945, his homeland of CzechoSlovakia was liberated from Nazi Germany, mainly by the Russians from the East, and also by the Americans from the West. Freedom at last! Soon after Russian troops occupied the country and Charles’ struggle for freedom and work in the …
As a child during World War II, I was in awe of this small Southern Moravian town on the Oslava River. It was full of historical treasures, art works and natural beauty – including a renaissance castle and a bridge lined with baroque sculptures built by Vaclav Adrian in the 1700s. It is a replica …
