Abstract
The life of Mikulas Teich was as long as a century. He was born during the Austro-Hungarian Empire and grew up in Masaryk's Czechoslovakia, which he never stopped admiring.
Yet he left the republic twice. For the first time in 1939 because of his Jewish origin - with a false passport on the train from Ruzomberok.
The second time in 1968 because of his Marxist beliefs - on a train from the Smichovsky railway station in Prague just a few days after the Soviet invasion. Each time, his new home was the UK.