"I was baptized in the Moldau river, thus I was actually unbaptized.."
Petr Ehrmann was born on October 26th, 1926 in Prague to Jewish parents who originated from Strakonice. He left for Palestine in October 1939, along with his parents, younger sister, uncles and cousins. He experienced a long distressful journey, which lasted over three months, on the ship "Spiroa" on the Danube River. After the long journey, he began working for a coal-ship which later brought him to Haifa, Israel. Once he arrived in Palestine he began working as a locksmith. By the end of 1943, when Ehrmann was seventeen years old, he joined the Czechoslovak army in Jerusalem. He fought in Dunkerque, France as a tank-driver of the first troop, third tank battalion. After the war, he moved to Prague to finish high school, but had to move out from Prague in 1948 to find work ("worker professions"). In 1981, he received an exit permit to France and Germany. There, he visited his cousin in Germany, and visited Israel, without the authorities knowing. Currently, he lives with his wife in a village near Mnichovo Hradiště town in the Czech Republic.
