Birthday Greetings Card in 1932. And Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

            The Postcard

A postally unused postcard that was published by K. H. B.

Although the card was not posted, the following has been written on the divided back:

"Many Happy Returns
on your 11th. Birthday.
From Daddy xxxx
18th. Feb. 1932."

The Republic of Manchukuo

So what else happened on Thursday the 18th. February 1932?

Well, on that day, following its invasion and occupation of Manchuria, Japan proclaimed the creation of a puppet state, the Republic of Manchukuo out of the three provinces of northeastern China (Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang).

A month later, Japan installed former Emperor of China Aisin-Gioro Puyi as the new republic's head of state in the Manchukuoan capital, Changchun, and renamed the city "Hsinking".

Miloš Forman

The day also marked the birth, in Čáslav, of Czechoslovakian-born American film director Miloš Forman.

Miloš Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. 

His father died in Buchenwald, and his mother died in Auschwitz, and Milos became an orphan at a young age. 

He studied screen-writing at the Prague Film Academy. In his Czechoslovakian films, Black Peter (1964), A Blonde in Love (1965), and The Firemen's Ball (1967), he created his own style of comedy. 

During the invasion of his country by the troops of the Warsaw pact in the summer of 1968 he left Europe for the United States. In spite of difficulties, he filmed Taking Off (1971) there and achieved his fame later with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which won five Oscars including one for direction.

Other important films of Miloš Forman were the musical Hair (1979) and his biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amadeus (1984), which won eight Oscars.

Forman died at the age of 66 on the 13th. April 2018 in Danbury, Connecticut.

Taken on: May 13, 2023

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