Worse Than Buchenwald
Czechoslovakia Today
LONDON. Sun. (11 a.m.)—Dr Peter Zenkl, former deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, arrived at London from Paris today. He said: “The last six months were worse for me and my wife than my six years in Buchenwald concentration camp.”
Dr Zenkl, who is going to the United States in ,a fortnight’s time, added: “Since the Communist coup my life has been in danger all the time.” Dr Zenkl said he came to Britain to help free Czechoslovakia from the Communists. Dr Zenkl was in tears with the warm reception other Czech refugees gave him.
He disclosed part of the scheme which led to his escape on August 7. “With my wife and two watchers — I always was watched—l visited my brother's grave. “We were all put into a motor-lorry and blindfolded. Less than four hours later we were in the American zone and safe. “We could not see who saved us; they would be partisans, of course.”
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Northern Advocate, 30 August 1948, Page 5
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