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Čeněk Šlégl, an extraordinary personality of Czech culture, film and theater actor, director, screenwriter, and long-time member of the Vlasta Burian Theater, had a single daughter, Blanka. She fell in love in the 1930s with Arnošt Weiss, a man of Jewish descent, whom she married in 1941 in defiance of the then-applicable Nuremberg Laws. The well-known artist was thus put under immense pressure, and the liquidation of his entire family was threatened. This marked the beginning of a fight for life and death. The popular actor was forced to appear in anti-Semitic sketches on the radio, write a novel with anti-Jewish content ('The Return' - navrat), engage in propaganda in favor of the Reich, and even accept a Nazi award. By taking these steps, he not only jeopardized his career but also tarnished his reputation before the entire nation. However, he managed to intervene to save the lives of his son-in-law, his daughter, and his then two-year-old granddaughter Susanna, who in 1945, as a half-Jew, was sent to a concentration camp...
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Author: Weissová Blanka, Pouliček Zuzana
Language: German
Publication date: April 12, 2019
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Petrklíč s. r. o.
Genres: German literature, Books, Foreign language books
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 128
ISBN/EAN: 9788072296798