In this VIDEO, his grandson John NASH talks about his grandfather Jan Antonín BAŤA
J.A.Baťa trained 250 pilots for the defense of Czech pre-WWII. Many of these pilots later became RAF pilots.
J.A.Baťa used his land in Brasil to resettle more then 150000 European war refugees after the war, to help them start a new life.
By the 1939, J.A.Baťa had created tremendously strong export enterprise Kotva with 700 representative offices aroun the World.
No other Czechoslovak organization or person provided so much assistance to Jewish employees who were in distress.
The fate of the still silenced hero of the Slovak National Uprising and one of its leaders, Capt. Josef Trojan. He was a coadjutor of J.A.Baťa
Pope Pius XII he was awarded the J.A.Baťa medal for helping European refugees.
J.Š. 15.10.2020
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