Lessons must be sought in history
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Tomáš Zmeškal was born on 3 July 1954 in Prague. He lived with his parents in Prague until the age of six. Then he grew up with his grandparents in Počátky, where he started compulsory schooling. After graduating from high school, he graduated from the University of Economics in Prague. He then worked as an economist in the foreign trade company Kovo. For business trips abroad he needed a service passport, but the condition for its issuance was joining the People’s Militia in this company. He refused this and left the company. He found further employment in the music publishing house Supraphon, where he remained until the Velvet Revolution. He felt the fall of the regime very strongly, participated in almost all demonstrations, and felt the unification of the nation. After the revolution he left Supraphon and started his own business. He learned about his mother’s horrific experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp only after her death from a video recording she left behind. No one in the family had any idea of its existence. He and his first wife raised a son and a daughter. In 2023, he was living in Prague.
