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Charles Novacek was born in Ožd’any, Czechoslovakia on May 11, 1928. He graduated from the Industrial College of Engineering in Brno, Czechoslovakia with a degree in mechanical engineering and attended the Masaryk University School of Law in Brno. After escaping his homeland in 1948, Novacek fled to Germany, then Venezuela and was finally able to immigrate with his family to the United States in 1956 where he taught himself English as his seventh language.

Novacek was a registered professional engineer and spent thirty-three years in the Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan area as a civil engineer, project, design and quality assurance manager. In retirement Novacek studied Mandarin Chinese and earned a B.G.S and an M.A. in Liberal Studies from
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Border Crossings Marks 11th Anniversary!

It’s hard to believe that today marks 11 years since the official release of the award-winning BORDER CROSSINGS: Coming Age in the Czech Resistance!

The memoir was written by my late husband Charles Novacek and published posthumously by my Ten21 Press in Detroit.  I named the publication company and set the publication date as October 21 to coincide with Charles’s and my wedding day.  

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Published on October 21, 2023 11:34
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“Why should I be frightened of dying? I did not know what death truly was; no one did. Who had made dying a bad word? Yes, it was universally considered awful—unwanted, painful, feared—because when it happened it stopped us from moving and being, and we interpreted that as if something had ended. But what if it were actually a beautiful experience? What if, with death, something actually began instead?”
Charles Novacek, Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance

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