Sladek, Osi (Sladek, Oscar)

Biography

Selma Rosen married Osi Sladek whose family had escaped from the Nazis in Slovakia. 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 Philharmonic. The family fled from the Nazis into the Tatra mountains before escaping through the Russian front. He learned to play accordion at the age of fourteen and later received musical education along with Hebraic and secular studies. At the age of eighteen, he became the youngest published song writer in Israel. He served in the Israeli Army from 1954 to 1957 and began a folk singing career. In 1958 he became part of the folk music revival in California. Selma Rosen and Osi Sladek met and married in California and then later settled in Denver, Colorado. The couple became the parents of four children, including film producer Daniel Sladek and historian Ron Sladek.

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