On Thin Ice
A biography of Otto and Maria Jelinek, Canadian world championship pairs skaters and refugees from Czechoslovakia.
A biography of Otto and Maria Jelinek, Canadian world championship pairs skaters and refugees from Czechoslovakia.
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Publisher: PaperJacks
Edition language: English
[These notes were made in 1990:]. This is not merely the story of Otto and Maria Jelinek, the pairs skaters, although they are the centrepieces, if you will. It is the story of the entire Jelinek family and their escape from Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s. A wealthy industrialist, the elder Henr...