Czechs in Exile

Real Life Stories

• Peter Kent - Peter's family has a long history in the village of Aston Abbotts and he lived there as a young boy during the second world war.
  
  
• Vojta Levin - Vojta serverd in the Czech Briagade and volunteered for guard duty at Aston Abbotts before the fixed Czechoslovak Guard were in place.
  
  
• Victor Scott - Victor has lived in Aston Abbotts all his life. He is a well known naturalist and was a friend of Dr. and Mrs. Beneš. It was from Victor's suggestion that the roses from Lidice were planted in Aston Abbotts during the May 2005 weekend.
  
  
• Frank Schwelb - Frank's father was a lawyer in Czechoslovakia and the family escaped just before the outbreak of WW2.