When dad came back, I called him uncle
Zdeněk Pošusta was born on 25 July 1939 in Telč to Eva and Karel Pošusta. His mother was Jewish, his father Catholic. In 1939, his father was arrested by the Gestapo because of his cooperation with the resistance organization Obrana Národa (Defence of the Nation). He was convicted in Wrocław for treason, went through several prisons and the Dachau concentration camp. Zdeněk Pošusta survived a house search during the Heydrichiad. In 1944, his mother was interned in Hagibor, from where she went to Terezín. Meanwhile, he lived with friends in Olomouc and later in Mladá Boleslav, where he experienced the bombing of the city by the Red Army on 9 May 1945. He did not meet his parents until after the liberation, he practically did not know his father and it took him a long time to develop a relationship with him. He graduated from an eleven-year high school in Telč. After the Velvet Revolution he represented the Czech Republic in the International Committee of Dachau. In 2023 he lived in Prague.