Reports from a Distant Place--Frank Shatz

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Reports from a Distant Place

by Frank Shatz

Reports from a Distant Place is a thoughtful and evocative collection that invites readers into moments of observation, reflection, and quiet discovery. Frank Shatz writes with a measured and perceptive voice, capturing experiences that feel both distant and deeply familiar—like dispatches from a place just beyond everyday awareness.

Blending insight with subtle storytelling, the book explores themes of perspective, connection, and the way distance—whether physical, emotional, or intellectual—can shape how we see the world. Each “report” offers a new angle, encouraging readers to pause, consider, and look a little more closely.

Ideal for readers who enjoy reflective, contemplative writing, Reports from a Distant Place is a compelling journey through thought and experience—a collection that lingers, offering meaning long after the final page.

Frank Shatz is an eye-witness to the horrors and terrors of the 20^th century, including the Holocaust and the imposition of an unforgiving communist ideology. But his life is much more than a tale of mere survival. It is, in reality, an affirmation of the human spirit, our universal yearning for freedom and dignity, and the unrivaled promise of the American dream.

Ambassador Mitchell B. Reiss
President Washington College

Frank Shatz is among the last who can explain the Holocaust first-hand. After the war, he promoted the work of anti-communist underground in Eastern Europe. His columns convey insight, courage, luck, hope.

Bill O'Donovan, publisher The Virginia Gazette

Frank Shatz's tales of resisting Nazism and communism offers not only insight into the past but also inspiration for the future.

Paul Aron, author of Unsolved Mysteries of History

Frank Shatz's ability to describe situations such as life under the Nazi's heel, outside the concentration camps, and living twice under a repressive regime, ushers us into a world where survival was a daily question mark.

His and his wife, Jaroslava's, escape from Communist Czechoslovakia and journey to the free world becomes an intimate, shared experience for the reader.

Sandy Lenthall, author of Conversations With Remarkable Women.

ISBN: 978-1-62249-000-4

152 Pages

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About the Author

Frank Shatz was born in Czechoslovakia and was educated in Budapest, Hungary and at the Karlovo University in Prague. During the Second World War he was forced into a Nazi slave labor camp. He escaped and joined the anti-Nazi underground in Hungary. After his homeland, Czechoslovakia was liberated, he returned to his hometown, Parkan. He became a foreign correspondent based in Prague. Communist oppression soon forced him to flee. Accompanied by his wife, Jaroslava, Shatz sought refuge in the United States. Here, he first served as foreign news editor for the Hungarian Daily in Cleveland, OH. Later, together with his wife, he established a retail business in Lake Placid, NY. While continuing to write about international affairs, Shatz became the founder and executive director of the Lake Placid Council on Foreign Policy and in 1980, the founder and organizer of the Olympic People-for-People Program. Shatz, a close friend of the late Emery Reves, was instrumental in persuading Reves’ widow, Wendy, to endow the Center for International Studies at the College of William and Mary. He himself became a strong supporter of the Center. After retiring from business, Shatz became a columnist for the Virginia Gazette, established in 1736, one of America’s oldest newspapers. He writes a column on international affairs.