Notes
- From the book by my dear friend, the late Avigdor Dagan, on Jan Masaryk, the foreign minister in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London during World War II. See Conversations with Jan Masaryk: “It is hard to be a Czech” [Hebrew], trans. Ruth Bondy (Tel Aviv, 2000).
- Sochor was later killed in a mysterious accident. At a memorial ceremony in 1992, I presented his widow and his son the insignia of the Haganah and the Aleh Fighters for the State decoration.
- On the resumption of relations between Israel and Czechoslovakia, see the detailed article of Dr. Yosef Govrin, “From Deep Freeze to Thaw: Relations between Israel and Czechoslovakia 1967–1990,” The Jerusalem Review (The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs) I: 1 (2006–07).
- This exhibit later traveled to Prague, Brno and Olomouc.
- Gašparovic did not harbor any ill will toward me. After the dissolution of the federation, he was elected speaker of the Slovak parliament and we became good friends. I hosted him in Israel when he made an official visit in the summer of 1995. Since 2004, he has been serving as the third president of Slovakia.