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xny^inn m Claims Confer* Claims Conference Holocaust Survivor Memoir Collection Access to the print and/or digital copies of memoirs in this collection is made possible by USHMM on behalf of, and with the support of, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library respects the copyright and intellectual property rights associated with the materials in its collection. The Library holds the rights and permissions to put this material online. If you hold an active copyright to this work and would like to have your materials removed from the web please contact the USHMM Library by phone at 202-479-9717, or by email at [email protected]. Letter to RENATA LAXOVA Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. https://archive.org/details/lettertoalexande03laxo Letter to lexander RENATA LAXOVA Of u? Git l3”> lt>0\ Custom Editorial Productions Custom Editorial Productions Inc. 546 West Liberty Street Cincinnati, OH 45214 513-723-1100 www.customeditorial.com Developmental Editor: Betsy Newberry Production Editor: Megan Smith-Creed Cover Designer: Vincent L. Iacobucci Production: Val Brandenburg, Amy Francis Copyright © 2001 by Renata Laxova All Rights Reserved The text of this publication, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photo¬ copying, recording, storage in an information retrieval system, or other¬ wise, without written permission. 01 02 03 04 05 MY 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-9714564-0-2 Contents / The First Republic.1 2 The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .43 3 Beginnings in England.79 U 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.