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MIROSLAV BERANEK was born in Lenesice a town in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, on October 29, 1931, to Josef Beranek and Marie Beranekova.

After the Communist takeover in 1948 his father who was a Gendarme in Lenesice, and the Mayor of Lenesice were jailed along with other leading intelligesia which included businessmen, lawyers, et al. he fled the brutal Communist regime via East Germany into West Germany in 1951. In May 1952 he arrived in Melbourne, Victoria as a Displaced Person aboard the S.S. "Nelly" and was duly housed in Bonegilla. From there he went to St. Marys, Cowra, and eventually to Oberon where he spent one of the coldest winters in his life housed in a Tent. It was C-O-L-D!!

From there he went to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme where he was employed as a Hydrographer in 1956. He met Angelia Beranek at a New Australian dance in Tumut in April that year and they were married on October 28, 1956. Co-incidentally this is the Czechoslovak National Day as it was formed after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was disbaned on that date in 1918.