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Pianist Serkin was born in the Bohemian city of Eger. His father was a singer, so there was a piano in the house; young Rudi knew how to read music by the time he was four, made a public appearance at twelve. But papa Serkin discouraged a prodigy's career, and it was not until Rudi was 17 that he began touring as a member of Violinist Adolf Busch's ensemble. He made his U.S. debut in 1933, returned with his wife (Busch's daughter Irene) when the war began, and became a U.S. citizen...
...loved her boyfriend Pavel. Zdenka, Pavel and Zdenka's girl friend Alena had long dreamed of escaping. A year ago, all three had made a pact to flee their Communist land together. Then on a day that seemed at first like any other, Zdenka left the schoolhouse in Eger and climbed aboard the 2:09 train for Asch, the border town where she lived. Instead of stopping at Asch as it always had, the train roared on into Germany, and Zdenka suddenly found herself free. Thinking of Pavel, Alena and their pact, she climbed meekly into a bus with...
...years ago he had been stationmaster at Asch, a mile from the German border. The Communists had found two men hiding in his house "without documents," and Truksa spent five months in a concentration camp. Now he had only a small job at the station in Eger (Cheb...
There were other passengers that Conductor Beb might have been interested in. At Eger, Truksa's wife got on. He pretended not to know her. At other stops along the line, more people boarded the train, including the wife and children of Engineer Jaroslav Konvalinka, up ahead in the cab. Some of the new passengers seemed nervous. Two or three sat down in Truksa's compartment, others near by. A few, as if by accident, sat down near the hand brakes...
...lkischer Beobachter, in the fall of 1938, shortly after the Sudeten "Anschluss." The Nazi explanation was that here were portrayed the intense emotions of joy which swept the Sudeten Germans as Hitler crossed the Czech border at Asch and drove through the streets of the nearby ancient city of Eger, 99% of whose inhabitants were ardently pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans at the time...