Charles Ota Heller
Author
Publisher
Abbott Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Charles Ota Heller's early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didn't last long. Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths in the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced.- Taken from book jacket
Author
Publisher
Atmosphere Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed memoir, Prague: My Long Journey Home, comes an inspiring account of a refugee who boarded a ship toward hope-toward the United States-where he began a pursuit of the American Dream. After losing 25 members of their family in the Holocaust, the author and his parents escape a brutal Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, transforming themselves in a single day from one of their native country's wealthiest families to...
Author
Publisher
WriteLife Publishing
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Charles Ota Heller has been an entrepreneur and mentor to entrepreneurs for over 40 years. Heller is a Holocaust survivor who arrived in the US as a penniless 13-year-old, speaking only two words of English. With strength, persistence, and determination, he went on to earn an athletic scholarship to college and obtain three degrees in engineering. He became an academic at the cutting edge of new computer technology and was bitten by the entrepreneurial...