Source: MZV ČR
Eva Haňková is a Czechoslovak-born centenarian who lives in the United States. She is one of the few surviving people who met Czechoslovakia’s co-founder and first president T.G. Masaryk. The few seconds with the president made her an overnight celebrity. To this day philatelists know her as “the girl from the stamp with President Masaryk”.
When Eva was a little girl growing up in Žďár nad Sázavou her home town was feverishly preparing for a visit by Czechoslovakia’s beloved head of state – President T.
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