Sladek, Osi
Biography
Osi Sladek is a musician living in Denver, Colorado. He began entertaining people as a child during World War II in Hungary. Osi Sladek was born in Czechoslovakia in 1935 to a father who was a Czechoslovakian composer and first violinist of the Kassa Philbarmonic. The family fled from the Nazis into the Tatra mountains before escaping through the Russian front. Osi Sladek joined the folk music scene in LA in 1958, married Selma Rosen and moved to Denver, Colorado.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Osi Sladek, 2015 April 3
The newspaper article appeared in the April 3, 2015 Passover Edition of the "Intermountain Jewish News." Daniel Sladek wrote about his father Osi Sladek who was a child Holocaust survivor and a folk singer and composer. He took part in the folk music revival beginning in 1958 when he arrived in California.
Rosen And Sladek Family Papers
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