People should defend their country. A nation which doesn’t honor its past can have no future.
Mr. Gerhard Singer was born on June 9th 1923 in Mistek (present Frydek-Mistek town). He comes from Jewish family. He lost his relatives during the holocaust. His parents arranged an escape to Denmark in 1939 for him. From here he continued his run away trip via Scandinavia and former Soviet Union all the way to Palestine. There in the Middle East he underwent the military training and was sent to Africa, where he fought in Tobruk waterfront. In 1942 he left to Great Britain on the Mauritania ship, where he got trained to be a tank operator and he participated in Dunkerque battles. After the end of the war he returned back to Czechoslovakia. He graduated on the Faculty of law, but he stayed in the field only shortly. As a western private he had to choose some of the * blue collar* jobs therefore he became an electrician.