I don’t have any roots
Tom Schrecker was born in 1932 in Prague as the only child into a family of a textile merchant. His parents got soon divorced. As a child, he lived for a few years in Italy. In June 1939 he was sent to Great Britain with the fifth transport organized by Nicholas Winton. He was raised in a Catholic family in England and Scotland. After the war he stayed in Britain and got a degree in history at the Oxford University. He worked as an agent for the Reader‘s Digest publishing house and his responsibility was to open new stores. Later he launched his own publishers. He lives in Australia since the 1960s. He sold his publishing house and other companies in the 1990s and retired in 1992. He goes to Europe every summer and each time visits also the Czech Republic.