Charles Ota Heller

I have been elated and humbled by the correspondence I have received from readers of PRAGUE around the globe. This week, a note arrived from Michael Botermans, a dedicated teacher in Canada’s Northern Territories. I would like to share it with you: Greetings from Canada’s Arctic! I’ve wanted to send this note to you last week,…

I was pleased and honored to receive the announcement that my book, Prague: My Long Journey Home, was selected as a finalist in the memoirs category for  2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards presented by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group. Thank you!

In case you missed Tuesday’s interview on Sheilah Kast’s Maryland Morning, broadcast on Baltimore’s NPR station WYPR (FM-88.1), you can catch it and more on the station’s website: www.wypr.org. Besides the interview which was broadcast on air, Sheilah and I discuss Prague: My Long Journey Home further, beyond the time allotted during her show. You…

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…