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Kamila's Home In Prague

Kamila's Home In Prague

Visiting the Iron Lady of the Czech anticommunist resistance

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Jul 14, 2021
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That photo makes me so happy. It’s a shot of my son Matt and me with Kamila Bendova, the widow of Vaclav Benda, whose portrait is behind us. Readers of my work know in how much esteem I hold the Benda family. Though Matt and I were only in Prague for a couple of days, it was important to me to try to get by to see Kamila, and introduce my son to her, as…

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