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Daniela Grollova Spenser is the author of the book Echoes of Exile: A Family’s Odyssey through the Holocaust and Cold War, a deeply personal yet historically grounded account of Czechoslovakia from the 1930s to the 1990s.
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In Echoes of Exile, historian and anthropologist Daniela Grollova Spenser offers an intimate portrait of her family’s experience—beginning with her grandmother, who was marked by the tragedy of the Holocaust, her father who was captured to become a prisoner of war in a German camp, and focusing on the lives of her mother, the translator Ruth Toskova and her second husband, the prominent editor and journalist Vladimir Tosek. Active in the cultural and political life of 1950s and 1960s Czechoslovakia, both were key figures during the Prague Spring. Following the Soviet invasion in 1968, they left the country and became part of the exile circles connected to leaders such as Jiri Pelikan. The book con-cludes with a thoughtful exploration of the relationship between political exiles and Czech society after 1989.
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Source: https://www.bohemianbenevolent.org/upcoming-events/daniela-spenser-echoes-of-exile