Great figures of our history should be respected
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Petr Holitscher was born on 18 July 1949 in Prague. At first he grew up with his parents and his sister Jarmila, three years younger. His father, originally a Hungarian Jew who went through a concentration camp, worked as a researcher at the Research Institute of Ornamental Horticulture of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Průhonice, his mother as an interpreter at the Swiss Embassy and died prematurely in 1960. Petr Holitscher was trained as a mechanic of measuring and control technology, later he graduated from the secondary industrial school of electrical engineering - specialisation in power engineering. Most of his professional life he worked as a power engineer. After the Velvet Revolution he left his original job and started to run two shoe shops. He also worked as a professional photographer for the Belgian company ADI. He also worked as a freelance artist and exhibited his work. He retired in 2014. He and his wife raised two daughters. In 2024 he lived near Prague.
