Produced by Estera Mlch and Patrik Kisucky, Motion Still Studios.
I'm excited to share the first project from the WWII memoirs series, that we have worked on for the last 6 months. It’s an untold story of Jan Antonin Bata a true patriot and Czech shoe manufacturer with worldwide success and his role to help many families during the WWII and with the Slovak National Uprising in 1944 - 1945. The story is told by his grandson John Nash, and it’s about his lifetime journey to clear his Grandfather’s good name. Thank you John Nash and Jana Nash for sharing your story and Estera Mlch for producing this film with me - VIDEO
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Jan Antonín Bata helped more than 300 Jewish families escape Nazism
He trained 250 pilots for World War II. Many of them went on to become RAF pilots.
He offered his land in Brazil to more than 150,000 refugees so they could start a new life after the war.
No other Czechoslovakian organisation or person offered so much help to its employees who were in need.
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