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  • 100 Years Ago – December 1918 – Tomas Masaryk on return from Exile

    100 Years Ago – December 1918 – Tomas Masaryk on return from Exile

    by Joanie Schirm on December 27, 2018

    https://youtu.be/MZgf8l56tQg  In this video from 1918, at about 8:10 minutes, the Mayor of Benesov, my dad’s Czech hometown, greets Tomas M. Masaryk returning from exile during WWI to become the president of the newly former Czechoslovakia. At the time my dad was six years old. My father’s aunt Valda was married to Jaroslav Marik, the…

  • Sixty-eight years hence. Never forget.

    Sixty-eight years hence. Never forget.

    by Joanie Schirm on February 28, 2016

    Sixty-eight years ago, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seized power in a violent coup. At the time just after WWII, my parents were living in Long Island, NY in the hamlet of Sayville.  Before the coup, they’d considered moving back to my dad’s Czech homeland where he wished to practice medicine. His interest in returning…