Tomas Kraus's parents

Tomas Kraus's parents

This is a picture of my mother, Alice Krausova (nee Flusserova) and my father, Frantisek Robert Kraus, taking a walk in Prague, in the 1930s.

In 1938, right after Munich, the entire Flusser family moved to Prague. They left absolutely everything in Teplice - their apartment, store, and property; they picked up and escaped to Prague. It was very hard for them to get used to Prague and get a foothold there, as they didn't speak Czech. People in Prague looked upon them as Germans. But in the end they established themselves there. My mother met my father there in 1938.

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