September 1938 - German occupation of Sudetenland

October 1938 - national mobilisation of Czech Army

14.3.39 German troops invaded Ostrava and 15.3.39 they invaded Prague and the rest of Czechoslovakia

September 1939

Poland invaded by Germany

Jindrich’s mother died in Ostrava 2nd September 1939 (allegedly she was knocked down by German military vehicle and denied medical assistance because she was Jewish)