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Stáhnout obrázek
Jan Hrach was born on 13 July 1928 in Prague. As a child and his father met T. G. Masaryk. As a school child he perceived the tense atmosphere during the Munich crisis. During the war, he became a member of Disman‘s Radio Children‘s Ensemble, where he also joined the anti-Nazi resistance - he and his friends worked as liaisons, and members of the choir also secretly filmed anti-Nazi sketches. They were also involved in the events of the Prague Uprising, with a gun in their hands they besieged the Vinohrady Sokol Hall during the time when it was occupied by German gunmen. He graduated in economics and in 1956 became an employee of Czechoslovak Television, where he worked as an editor of Television News, focusing on agriculture. His television career was ended by the occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. With two colleagues he hid in Brdy, where there was to be an illegal television studio. The broadcast never took place, but his anti-occupation stance got him fired from television. For some time he worked as a cleaner and later as a lawyer.