He fled from Hitler to London and from Brezhnev to the Indians
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Jindřich Goba was born to Jewish parents Erna and Bedřich Gottliebers on 14 February 1933. His father had their former German surname Gottlieber changed to Goba after the war. The family fled to England via Beskydy and Poland after the Nazi annexation of Opava in October 1938. They initially settled in London where the witness first went to school. He witnessed the bombing of London and the evacuation of children to Wales. He attended a Czechoslovak school for exiles‘ children. In 1942, his father joined the Czechoslovak troops. After returning to Opava, Jindřich Goba completed a military school but was discharged from the army in the mid-1950s. He worked as a teacher at a school and worked with the Socialist Academy in the 1960s. He joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. In December 1968 he emigrated to Canada via Austria. He worked as a teacher in Canada. Among other things, he taught children in an Indian reservation. He returned to Opava in 2015 and was living there at the time of filming in 2025.
