Oscar Sladek is regarded as a dedicated and respected professional and cultural / educational leader in Colorado's Jewish community. A child survivor of the Holocaust from Presov, Czechoslovakia, (now Slovakia) who immigrated to the United States in the late 1950s, he is an accomplished singer / songwriter who reached acclaim in Israel and on the Colorado and Southern California folk music circuit of the 1950's-1960's. In 2019, Colorado Governor Jared Polis presented Sladek with an award honoring his "commitment to inspire understanding, moral courage, and social responsibility." www.EscapetotheTatras.com
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A coming-of-age story set against the rise of fascism, the collapse of democracy in Slovakia and Hungary, the attempted genocide of the Jewish people, and the eventual conquest of the Allied Forces over Nazi Germany, ESCAPE TO THE TATRAS tells the story o... SEE MORE