“I thank Charles Heller for having the courage to share his poignant and profound story with the world... a record of a history that should never be forgotten.”
—His Excellency Petr Gandalovič, Former Czech Ambassador to the U.S.
About the Author
Charles Ota Heller’s career has consisted of six phases: engineer, educator, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, management consultant, and writer. Today, he is a full-time writer, the author of Prague: My Long Journey Home (2011) and Name-Droppings:Close Encounters with the Famous and Near-Famous (2013). His business autobiography, Ready, Fire, Aim! An Immigrant’s Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror was released by the WriteLife imprint of Boutique of Quality Books Publications on June 1, 2017.
Behind the Scenes
Hundreds of books have been written about World War II, but few have presented the story through the eyes of some of the millions of children who lived in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s and whose lives were shaped forever by the dangers, horrors and unsettling events they experienced. I was one of those children.
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Latest Blog Post
Opening chapter of my upcoming book about the immigrant experience in America: “Come on, swim to me!” Water clogged my ears and I could barely hear my father, who had thrown me into the middle of Labe (Elbe) River in Czechoslovakia. Although I was nine years old, I had not learned to swim and now…