2021Personalities - Ladislav Grosman (1921 – 1981) - Set

He was born in 1921 in Humenné, Eastern Slovakia. Several members of his Jewish family suffered during World War II, his parents and three siblings died when a transportation train was bombed. After the end of the war, in the 1950s, he studied at the University of Political and Social Sciences in Prague. When he returned to Slovakia he worked at the Pravda Publishing House and in the field of book culture and cinematography.