Letter to Alexander

266 Pages·2001·16.8 MB·English

by  Laxova, Renata

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Letter to
RENATA LAXOVA

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Contents
/ The First Republic.1
2
The Protectorate of Bohemia
and Moravia .43
3
Beginnings in England.79
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What is "Renate"?.99
5
Schwester Susanna Schlesinger
and Mikulas Potocny.115
6 13l
The Immediate Aftermath.
7
Renate Daniels.147
8
Renata Polgarova.169
3
Big Brother.179
40
Tibor.213
,
My childhood lasted exactly eight years and fifteen days and
although its memories have remained with me throughout my
,
life never before have they consumed my thoughts and senses as
,
vividly as during my recent visit to Brno, Czech Republic in
,
November 1999. They came crowding to the surface in the sharp
,
cold air mingled with the smells of late autumn evenings and the
sounds of the tramcars awakening me in the early morning. With
them came the realization that I had come to the point in my life
when 1 was finally ready to tell the story—all of it—the good and
the bad.