Czech expatriates

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 74. Chapters: Tom Stoppard, MiloS Forman, Milan Kundera, Anton Cermak, Ferdinand Peroutka, Bohuslav Martinu, MaSín, Mila Rechcigl, Rafael Kubelík, Jan Hammer, Hugo Bezdek, Karel Husa, Salo Flohr, Jan Matulka, Max Brod, Jirí Brezina, Zdenek Zeman, Peter Glaser, Stanislav Grof, Janet Malcolm, Jirí Tancibudek, Lubomir Kavalek, Hans Kelsen, David Zeisberger, Vilém Flusser, Jan sejna, Emil Wolf, Jan BeneS, Petr Zenkl, Johann Stamitz, Karel Kryl, Jaroslav Jezek, Wenceslaus Hollar, Karel Reisz, Cestmír Vycpálek, Yehuda Bacon, Karel Krautgartner, Miloslav Rechcigl, Sr., Vera Ralston, Karl Stefan, AleS Hrdlicka, Miroslava Stern, Chaviva HoSek, Isaiah Horowitz, Ernst Tugendhat, Maria Jelinek, Rudolph Ruzicka, Jan Kresadlo, Anny Ondra, Albin Polasek, Jirí Mucha, Václav Nedomanský, Václav Nelhýbel, Antonín Kubálek, Avigdor Dagan, Jan Tríska, Eduard Ingris, Antonín Tucapský, Frank Plicka, George Brady, Lea Vivot, Pavel Tigrid, Ota Ulc, Jana Sterbak, Olga Schoberová, Jirí Vanek, Ludvík ASkenazy, Jirí Horák, Ivan Passer, Alfréd Radok, Josef Stejskal, Emanuel Viktor Voska, Josef Dessauer, Zdenek Kopal, Karel Soucek, Jaromír Krejcar, Marianne Kinzel, TomáS Krystlík, Jan Hajek, Vaclav Zizler, Richard Konkolski, Ludek Frýbort. Excerpt: Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL (born TomáS Straussler 3 July 1937) is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has won one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. In 1939, Stoppard left Czechoslovakia as a child refugee, fleeing imminent Nazi occupation. He settled with his family in Britain after the war, in 1946. After being educated by schools in Nottingham and Yorkshire, Stoppard became a journalist, a drama critic and then, in 1960, a playwright. He has been married twice, to Josie Ingle (1965-1972) and Miriam Stoppard (1972-1992), and has two sons, one from each marriage, including actor Ed Stoppard. Stoppard was born TomáS Straussler, in Zlín, a "Shoe Town", in the Moravia region of Czechoslovakia. He was the son of Martha Beckova and Eugen Straüssler, a doctor with the Bata shoe company. Both parents were Jewish, though neither practising. Just before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the town's patron, TomáS Bata, helped re-post his Jewish employees, mostly physicians, to various branches of his firm all over the world. On 15 March 1939, the day that the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, the Straussler family fled to Singapore, one of the places Bata had a company. Before the Japanese occupation of Singapore, the two sons and their mother were sent on to Australia. Stoppard's father remained in Singapore as a British army volunteer, knowing that, as a doctor, he would be needed in its defence. From t