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Zlín

American  
[zhleen] / ʒlin /

noun

  1. a city in SE Moravia, Czech Republic.


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Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler to a Jewish family in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, on July 3, 1937.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I feel incredibly lucky not to have had to survive or die. It's a conspicuous part of what might be termed a charmed life," he said in US magazine Talk in 1999, as he reflected on returning to his birthplace Zlin in what is now the Czech Republic.

From BBC

Stoppard was born Tomas Straussler to Jewish parents in Zlin in 1937 in what was then Czechoslovakia.

From Barron's

She married Eugen Sträussler, a doctor working in Zlín in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, for a shoemaking company called Bata, which ran the town.

From New York Times

Ivana Marie Zelnickova was born Feb. 20, 1949, in what is now Zlín, in the Czech Republic.

From Washington Post