Pavel Tigrid

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Pavel Tigrid born October 27, 1917 in Prague, Czechoslovakia as Pavel Schoenfeld, died August 31, 2003 in Héricy near Paris, France. Publicist, publisher and author of Czech origin.

He left Czechoslovakia as a young man to evade the Nazis. In Great Britain, he adopted the pseudonym Tigrid (after Tigris) for his work as a broadcaster of anti-fascist propaganda and kept it for the rest of his life. Returning after the end of World War II, he continued his publishing career, soon clashing with the ascendant communist ideology. Fleeing arrest, he emigrated to West Germany, later moved to USA and finally settled in France. During the Cold War, Tigrid was a prominent representative of Czech anti-communist exile, authored several books and published numerous publications, for example the magazine Svědectví ("Testimony"), read both in exile circles and by dissidents in Czechoslovakia. He returned to Prague for the second time after the Velvet Revolution, has been active in public life and served as a Minister of Culture, but after an unsuccessful campaign for election to the Czech Senate, he retired to France. He died in 2003.