September 4, 2012

A Lost Friend


Location uncertain; December 1944 or January 1945. This is my Mom's friend Vojtěch. Vojtěch was from Prague. Like Mom, he was a Displaced Person and a medical-school student. Mom and Vojtěch worked together as orderlies. Vojtěch returned to Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1945 to join the Czech resistance. In May of that year, Mom received a letter from the Red Cross explaining that Vojtěch had been shot while fighting for that cause. Heartbreaking.

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