Miroslav Kárný

His mother ran a shop selling candy and haberdashery and his father was a tradesman.

After graduating from the gymnasium, Kárný studied history and Czech language at the Charles University of Prague from 1937 to 1939.

[1] Because he was Jewish, Kárný was sent on 24 November 1941 to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where he met his future wife, Margita Krausová (1923–1998).

From there, Kárný was deported for slave labour to the Kaufering concentration camp in Germany, a subcamp of Dachau.

[citation needed] After the war, he became a journalist, then a freelance historian, specializing in the Holocaust and German fascism.