THE CHRONICLE OF THE STREET BLANICKÁ IN PRAGUE-Justice is only a dream – one wakes up past own ruin. A book about the Palace Continental

Book Publication 2014

Ivo Hugo Sklenar und Ivo Thomas Adolf Sklenar

Publisher: Copyright ©OneTASK  2014, Prague-Basel

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Annotation

The book describes true destinies, including experiences, thoughts, attitudes, (sometimes philosophizing) opinions, loves, hobbies, and also the death of almost four generations of to Jews related Czechs, not involved in collaboration with neither the Nazi nor the communist powers. These people were through life connected with a Prague house in the Blanická Street, which was called before the war Palace Continental. Difficult times of Czech lands during the 20^th and in the beginning of the 21^st century led to its deterioration. Ivo Hugo, the son of one of the house founders, started to work on the chronicle after the death of his wife, the great love of his life Wlasta (Vlastička), which caused that a large amount of hand written material remained after his death. His descendant Ivo Thomas Adolf shaped the writings for long months into publishable form, to remember the early founders and dwellers of the formerly important edifice. They were destroyed and thrown down the trap-door of history and nameless graves by the unjust powers producing times and monsters of the Nazi and communist darkness. The German part of the text in the Czech release is a translation of an interview that was given by ITA the writer of the chronicle to the Jewish Museum in Prague. A full English translation of the book is being prepared.

Explanation of the book’s subtitle

Some people expressed in the past a certain lack of understanding of it. But there are at least two, if not more, explanatory passages on this theme in the book. For example could not many of the Jewish victims of the Nazis believe that the cultural nation of Germans, from which the majority, but not all, of their executioners came, would be capable of the unrighteous crimes and murders that were then committed during the war. One can assume and hope that they woke up at the end in a better place from the illusion and were consoled, because fortunately, there are many indications that the human conscious life is with the ruin of the biological being not over, among other sources it is confirmed in many Jewish spiritually inspired scriptures. Another fact, which lets justice appear during the earthly life of many people as a dream, is their self-made, but unjustified, opinion about own innocence and immunity against any judging of their worldly existence by a higher moral authority. This too will be through the Jewish and Christian biblical statements made impossible. Additional support for these traditionally revealed assertions about conscious existence outside of the biological body can be found in modern hypotheses that quantum mechanisms at subatomic level  can be made responsible for consciousness, because the phenomenon of awareness can be experimentally evocated by observing the behavior of subatomic particles.

  

List of contents of the German and English edition which are in preparation:

Contents (to be continued)

Childhood of Hugo´s wife Vlastička (Wlasta) and her first home 14

Mother Boženka Hynková from Saintess village (Světice) 15
Father of Wlasta Thomas Lehovec from Schoschowitz 17
Man - a child of demanding nature? 18
Interpretaion of historical Wlasta 19
How Wlasta captivated grandpa Wenceslas 21
Departure to Katharina village (Kateřinky) to a new home 27
Future inn-keeper in Katharina village with surname hazel grouse 27
Removal of the Lehovecs to Katharina village 32
Galloping on the draft horseback in front of rack wagon 37
Fany Hynek was original and beautiful as a girl 38
The youth, growing up and peasant drudgery in Katharina village 39
New Tavern in Katharina village even before the electrification 42
School attendance in Scheberau before the war 46
Proclamation of love is called Happiness 50
The agricultural workers from Slovakia 51
In the citizen school in Chodau and crossing Rosenbühl to Prague 53
Shredded beer bottle for Katharina village 57
Vlastička liked to wear nice clothes and pretty shoes 59
Common bicycle trips to Saintess village 61
With Grandpa Wenceslas (Václav) in the woods while mushroom picking 63
Goodbye, goodbye ... Oh from dear Grandpapa 64
On the dusty roads of the twenties and thirties 65
Harvesting work in the fields and the school of female occupations 65
The time just before the Second World War 67
Reckless forces of injustice active in history 69
Hugo's vision of nationality problems in Bohemia 70
As Europe feared Hitler 72
Politicians failed then and for corruption even today 72
Anti-Fascist radio stations from R. Formis in village Slapy 73
Murdering Hitler Agent Naujocks 74
Hugos hours of darkness 75
The time when Hitler's armies in 1939 occupied Bohemia and Prague 76
The war is consequence of the failure so-called good people 79
Prague looted and gutted by the Hitler hordes 81
The Twenties in Centennial House in Prague Stephan Gasse 83
No justice in this world, not even death 84
Old apartment on the corner of Butcher and Stephen Lane in Prague 85
The bedbugs were walking on the bedroom wall 87
Hugos grandparents Ludwik and Franciska Stern 88
Memories of the celebrations of Hugo's childhood 89
Frightful St. Nicholas for the little boy 90
Magical Christmas with Mama 90
The birth of brother Ada 93
Is nature unjust? 94
At the end there is justice 94
Existed really the predominance of women over men? 94
The women have to work more in life 94
Late Marriage of father of Hugo 95
The stepbrother of Hugo's father went soon away to the United States 96
Hugo describes his Mama 96
The enterprises of engineer Stern and Pick 97
Hugo's father worked in his youth as an engineer in Germany 97
Competition for the representation of the company Continental 98
The pressing process of rubber on the steel wheels of trucks 98
Company Continental in Zeltner Lane (Celetná) No. 12 in Prague in 1921   99
Initial poverty recedes 100
The event with the bathtub for children 100
Quarrels because of money problems 101
Little Hugo goes to creche 101
The engineers build a house on the Royal Vineyards 102
The architects of the building were Mühlstein and Fürth 103
Palais of the company Continental 1926 - 1928 on the Vineyards 103
Little Hugo and brother Ada go visit the new building 104
The home surrounding in the year 1928 106
Exciting experiences on the high terrace house 106
Family Schmolka from Stephan alley and evil fate 108
The second cousin of Adolf Stern was a farmer in Svojetice 109
The occupation by cultural supermen 110
The whole family Schmolka transported to Theresienstadt  111
Young prisoners from Theresienstadt used in Lidice 111
The injustice of the world protects the Nazis 112
Justice begins at the moment of death 112
Moving in 1929 on Royal Vineyards in the new home 113
Short dream about humanity and justice in the world 114
The prosperous company and their cars 116
Hugos description of the apartment, which was new 68 years ago 117
Kitchen 118
Hall 119
Interior installation of house architect Mühlstein and Fürth 119
In so-called salon the house concerts were happening 120
The children's room, the bedroom and the terrace 121
Furniture 122
The interior of the bedroom and children room 124
The bathroom 125
The bidet was a nuisance to the street committee members 126
Hugo's enthusiasm lasted for decades 126
Apartment fate during the communist government 127
Holiday Travel of little Hugo to Cousin George 127
To the parents of the mother and her sister Anna Ottilie 128
The adventures with cousin Georg in Slovak Zvolen 128
Drumming on pots and a fall on the dunghill 129
Infection from melons in Slovakia 129
Unauthorised Marching to Georg from vineyards to Potschernitz  129
How Hugo avoided the beatings at midnight after the flight 131
Little boy is growing up at pre-war vineyards 132
State elementary school with German language of instruction 132
Reminder of the memorable synagogue in Sasau (Sázavská) Street 133
Hugo loved the grandfather of the father's side 134
Grammar School in Mikulandská Street 135
Memories of father and the First World War 135
Twenty thousand Fallen in Rovereto 136
Zona Sacra 136
Holiday travels through Europe in the thirties 136
By train from Prague directly to Grado 136
The beaches on the former island 138
Visits to other places of the Adriatic coast 140
Traveling over prewar Europe 141
Strict adherence to the visit of the school 142
How the father strictly controlled the school marks   143
The story with the pinched finger 144
How the devil jumped the little Hugo  144
Experiences in Prague park during free days 146
The study on the Real and Academic Grammar School 147
Famous teachers Neruda, Hašek in Mikulandská School 149
Electrical Houses of Fürth and Mühlstein 149
Supporting the German minority during the so-called First Republic 149
Hugo had to go each day back and forth on foot to school 150
How Übermenschen destroyed the work of the President-Liberator 150
Author of the Chronicle does not reach recognized conclusions 151
Teachers and stories out of school in Mikulandská 151
Spectacular presentation of friend Alois Valeš 152
Friend Georg Pancer executed by the Nazis 153
Jewish teachers disappear from German Grammar School in Mikulandská 153
At the Czech Grammar School Na Smetance 154
Akademic Secondary School in Stephan alley (Štěpánská) 155
Overcoming the animosity between Czechs and Germans 155
Hugo took part in many sporting activities at the middle school 156
Cycling and skiing in the Giant Mountains (Krkonoše) 157
Prewar Bungalows in Giant Mountains were managed by the Sudeten Germans 158
Hugos great holiday adventures with Georg Pancer 159
Georg Pancers instruction into towing the canoe on the Vltava River 159
Wintry involuntary swim in the Vltava River 160
The history of the Carpathian Ukraine and Czechoslovakia 161
Walking through Subcarpathian Ruthenia in place by canoe on the Danube 161
Against grumpy bears and vipers 162
From Wilson Station with backpack and tent pyramid 162
From Uzhhorod on foot through the Carpathian Mountains 163Buying a white steed to carry luggage 164
Reminiscences from the enclosure of the old age 166
Necessity of purchase of a brown horse 166
Definitely on Uschok and Jasina 167
etc.