It was just a year after the end of the war that Ivan Reitman was born on the same side of town where Miriam Rosenthal grew up. His parents, too, were part of the city’s Jewish community and suffered terribly during the war. His father was a resistance fighter. His mother survived Auschwitz.Things didn’t get much easier once the war ended. Just a few years later, while Reitman was still a toddler, Czechoslovakia’s parliamentary democracy was overthrown by a Communist coup, ushering in d...
