When Seconds Matter
After the Second World War the family of Ivo Feierabend lived in the Slunná Street in Ořechovka in Prague. “In 1948 I knew from the very beginning it is over. It was certain that the Communists are about to treat us in the same way as the Nazis did.” Mr Feierabend´s father was a politician in the agrarian party and when the police came for him after February 1948, Ivo Feierabend and his sister Hana managed to warn their father thanks to the prearranged signal; in the moment Ivo intuited the police is at the door he put his father´s pipe into his mouth and his sister took the coat and helped the father to escape through the back entry leading to the garden. “Then I and my sister lied to police for about two hours.” The family got together after several months and jointly emigrated.
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- Jenean McBrearty
2019-12-03 01:27:16 - I was a student of Dr. Feierabend's at SDSU in the 1980s; he was my MA Thesis Chair. I can truthfully say he is a brave man, as he was willing to chair a thesis that no one else wanted to touch (German Reunification as a Social Movement 1986). He had an open mind philosophically and academically. To paraphrase Ike Eisenhower, we shall not see his like again. More than anyone, he knew the straightjacket that both fascism and communism put us in when they come to power. I am so happy for him and his family to have seen the end of that oppression. My respect for him is deep and abiding.
