Vendulka Voglová: Escape to Freedom
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: April 18, 2019, 20:00 – 21:00
Evening with Ondřej Kundra dedicated to the life of Vendulka Voglová, who became a symbol of the Holocaust thanks to a photograph by Jan Lukas.
At the moment the well-known Czechoslovak photographer released the shutter of his camera Vendulka Voglová was due to die within months. However, the picture that later made the 12-year-old girl a symbol of the Holocaust might never have been taken. Vendulka was Jewish and Lukas was afraid to develop the photo; if the Nazis had found it, he would have ended up in a concentration camp like Vendulka and her family.
Nearly 80 years later the journalist Ondřej Kundra succeeded in tracking Vendulka Voglová down in the US, where she had emigrated after the war, and persuaded her to speak about her troubled life and friendship with Lukas. His gripping report delivered a personal, and exceptional, account of the most painful events of the 20th century.