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Edita,
Thank you so much for our wonderful tour of Prague. You are very professional, knowledgeable, and responsive to our questions and requests. You quickly personalized our tour to suit our interests while making sure we saw the best of the city. When we got our pictures back, I was reminded of our walk around the riverside area below the Charles bridge. That gave us a wonderful perspective of the bridge and the river while showing us the magnitude of the recent floods. It was very meaningful to us and greatly appreciated. You have a beautiful city and we felt privileged to have you present it to us.
I must also tell you that our trips to and from Karlovy Vary were excellent. I apologize but I have forgotten our driver's name. He was wonderful; he was there to pick us up before the scheduled time, both ways, and, then, drove us in a safe and comfortable manner. While looking out the window of the van, enjoying the passing scenery, all I could think of was how much nicer this was than trying to deal with trains and buses and taxis. I would strongly recommend it as the way to go.
Again, we have wonderful, beautiful memories of your country and city and we owe much of that to you. Thanks,
Doug Lawton, John Rogers, and Phyllis Holloway
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Dear Edita,
I have attached a scanned image of the Czech family that I spoke about over the phone last week. This family helped to care for my father-in-law, Lester Biwersi, after Lester was freed from a German prison camp by the Russians in early May 1945. We believe this family lived approximately 30 to 50 kilometers south or southeast of Dresden. Lester died in August 1990. Lester's widow (my mother-in-law) is still living and is curious to learn what happened to this nice Czech family. If we can locate the family, we would like to correspond with them.
Lester Biwersi was born in 1912 in Dane, Wisconsin (near Madison). He was drafted into the US army in 1942. He was a rifleman in the US 82nd Infantry. He participated in the invasion at Omaha Beach in Normandy in June 1944 and the Liberation of Paris in August 1944. He was captured by the Germans near Luxembourg in the Battle of the Bulge about December 18, 1944. Lester was transported by train to prison camp Stalag IV-B near Mühlberg (between Leipzig and Dresden). Lester was first forced to work in a factory that produced roofing tiles. Later, in the Springtime of 1945, he was forced to help clear the rubble and dead bodies from the bombing of Dresden. He was near Dresden when the Russians advanced into Germany in May 1945. The Russians told the prisoners to move behind the combat line since the Russians planned to advance toward Berlin. Lester and three other prisoners walked "about 20 miles toward Czechoslovakia" according to Lester when I recorded him in an int!
erview in 1983. Lester was very thankful for the help that this Czech family gave him. He was skin and bone at that point and weighed only 98 pounds. He had dysentery and was full of lice from the prison camp. Lester said the names of the couple were "Fritz and Louisa" (that is what the names sounded like to him in English) and remembered that Louisa took very good care of him and that she was a very good cook. Lester stayed with this family for about 3 or 4 weeks until he could be transported to a US Army base in France in June 1945.
On the back of the photogragh, the following names are written in pencil:
rod Hubeny
p Dojickova máma
p Füssel táta
p Járinská
Please let me know if you need more clarification. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Dale Thompson
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