Dec. 12, 1953 - Adventurous flight to the freedom: The 52 rears old baker Bedrich...

Dec. 12, 1953 - Adventurous flight to the freedom: The 52 rears old baker Bedrich Cech told his adventurous flight with his families from the Czechoslovakia to Austria to representatives of the press at Vienna. Three times the luggage-van in which the fugitives had hidden themselves passed the iron curtain before the family finally reached the freedom. Cech and his 30 years old son had made a hole under the wood loaded wagon which got air by oxygen-apparatus. At this hiding-place the two men, the daughter in law of Cech and their two children lived more than one week. Half stifled and starved they reached the American zone of Austria. The reason for their flight had been the fear being arrested because the daughter of the baker married an American and emigrated to the United States. Our pictures above shows: Marian Cech, his wife Drahomira, Bedrich Cech and the two children Vladislav (4 years old) and Vlasta (2 years old). Our picture below shows how the fugitives reconstruct leaving the wagon of the train on Austrian territory