Unknown Seidl Family, 1945-Štědrá rodina Seidlových v Praze 1945

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Prague, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia
Surname/tag: SEIDL

Who helped my prisoner-of-war father in Prague 1945?

The photo, date stamped 24 December 1938, is a postcard showing a couple who gave my prisoner-of-war father Henry Williams and his comrades much needed hospitality in Prague, June 1945. The couple look as if they were in their thirties in 1938, so perhaps with birth dates about 1903 plus or minus 3 years.

Also shown is the reverse of the card – with in my father’s hand, the name of the gentleman JOSEF SEIDL.

The couple had a young child probably named Ingrid.

When my father returned to New Zealand he wrote to the couple several times but never heard from them. Of course, the then Czechoslovakia was then under Soviet control – or the couple may have been affected by the unrest in Prague at the time. In recent years, more has come to light regarding my father’s prisoner-of-war labour camp experience and I have been assisted by friends in Czechia but I have had no success in identifying this couple. Prague Tramways – with which the gentleman was possibly associated – were unable to help.

There is a museum in Česká Ves at which Czechia people have generously commemorated prisoners-of-war, including my father. See accompanying photo. So far, that thanks has been partly one way – I need to identify and deliver a delayed thanks to descendants of these people.

Can anyone help identify possible candidates for the couple, and perhaps descendants? Of course getting in touch with a living relative is a separate exercise.