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    Prague: My Long Journey Home: A Memoir of Survival, Denial, and Redemption
    Prague: My Long Journey Home: A Memoir of Survival, Denial, and Redemption
    Prague: My Long Journey Home: A Memoir of Survival, Denial, and Redemption
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    Prague: My Long Journey Home: A Memoir of Survival, Denial, and Redemption

    By Charles Ota Heller

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    Author Charles Ota Hellers early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didnt last long, Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths who lived in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced.
    In this memoir, Heller, born Ota Karel Heller, narrates his familys storya family nearly destroyed by the Nazis. Son of a mixed marriage, he was raised a Catholic and was unaware of his Jewish roots, even after his father escaped to join the British army and fifteen members of his family disappeared.

    Prague: My Long Journey Home tells of his Christian mother being sent to a slave labor camp and of his hiding on a farm to avoid deportation to a death camp. With the war coming to a close, Heller tells of how he picked up a revolver and shot a Nazi when he was just nine years old.

    Heller, now an assimilated American, left the horrors of the pastalong with his birth namebehind to live the proverbial American Dream. In his memoir, he recalls how two cataclysmic events following Czechoslovakias Velvet Revolution brought him face-to-face with demons of his former life. On his personal journey Heller discovered and embraced his heritageone which he had abandoned decades earlier.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbbott Press
    Release dateDec 14, 2011
    ISBN9781458201201
    Prague: My Long Journey Home: A Memoir of Survival, Denial, and Redemption
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    Charles Ota Heller

    Charles Ota Heller is the author of award-winning Prague: My Long Journey Home. An entrepreneur who founded several companies, he has been an educator, venture capitalist, and author. Today, he devotes himself to writing and serving on boards of directors. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife, Sue.

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      Prague: My Long Journey Home by Charles Ota Heller is a book to read "cover to cover." It is both personal and panoramic, built on remembrance and research. More than autobiography it is a chronicle of World War II events (a seven page bibliography bears witness). Eight pages of photographs enrich his text.Heller, who was born in 1936, tells us "children of war are sentenced to lives filled with memories and nightmares." His Preface and Epilogue, and the quotations that head each chapter, deepen our understanding of his narration.

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