Charles Ota Heller

I’ll be discussing my book, Prague: My Long Journey Home, on Tuesday morning (May 29) at 9 am with Sheilah Kast, host of the Maryland Morning show, on WYPR, FM-88.1. If you can’t catch it live, you can listen to it later on the station’s web site, www.wypr.org. Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast is a wonderful show…

I will be discussing, and signing copies of, my memoir — PRAGUE: MY LONG JOURNEY HOME — on Saturday, May 19, at 3:00 pm, at the Annapolis Bookstore, located at 35 Maryland Avenue. I’d like to invite everyone with an interest in my book, in World War II, in the Holocaust, and in inspirational memoirs…

 On Sunday, I had the pleasure of attending a meeting of the Czech and Slovak Heritage Association in Baltimore. I had the opportunity to sign my book, Prague: My Long Journey Home, for a number of Czech and Slovak emigres and descendants of emigres. Perhaps more than anything, I enjoyed eating Czech food served at…

Everyone knows who the top two picks in tonight’s NFL draft will be: the Colts will take Andrew Luck of Stanford and the Redskins will choose Robert Griffin of Baylor. Yet, consider the following scores: Brandon Weeden 41- Andrew Luck 38: in the Fiesta Bowl, a game which, if the NCAA did not have an SEC bias,…

Theresa Winslow’s story about PRAGUE: MY LONG JOURNEY HOME has been picked up by Associated Press and is appearing in newspapers and online throughout the US. Here is a story on the CBS website:                             Man Writes Of Life In Nazi-Occupied Czechoslovakia

My young Czech friend, Judita Matyasova, is an outstanding writer, with a book about Kafka on her resume along with many feature articles in newspapers and magazines. During her research for a story, she came across a surprising — and untold — event from World War II: the rescue of 150 Czech children from the…

On Easter Sunday, The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland featured a story about Prague: My Long Journey Home. I appreciate writer Theresa Winslow’s carefully researched piece: Arnold man writes of life in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia By THERESA WINSLOW, Staff Writer   Capital Gazette Communications Published 04/08/12 When he was 9 years old, Charles Ota Heller found…

Morris County Daily Record, April 6, 2012 Former Morristown resident writes about surviving war in Europe Written by Matt Manochio Special to the Daily Record Charles Heller was 9 years old when he shot a Nazi in Czechoslovakia. The son of a Jewish father and Christian mother, Heller was in hiding at a family friend’s…

Last week, a man convicted of 28,000 counts of being an accessory to murder was accorded three-quarters of a page in the obituary section of a major national newspaper. When my great-grandfather — Gustav Neumann – died, no newspaper carried a story about this wonderful man. John Demjanjuk was a native Ukranian who spent many…

I am pleased by the fact that 30 reviews of my book have been posted on Amazon,com (28 of them with a five-star rating). The latest was written by Dr. William G. Durden, President of Dickinson College: PRAGUE: MY LONG JOURNEY HOME is a memoir that confronts a myriad of haunting human questions–loss, identity, longing,…