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THOMAS LENDA

THOMAS LENDA

(PLZEŇ/CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1936)

GERMAN INVASION FLIGHT DEPORTATION FLIGHT ONCE AGAIN IMMIGRATION

Born as Tomáš Lustig

Left home in Prague two weeks after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia

September 1942: deported to Terezin concentration camp

One of very few child survivors of Terezin

Escaped communist Czechoslovakia in 1969

Came to Seattle in 1975

Lest We Forget Seattle 03-04-2019