Leopoldstadt ****
By: Paulanne Simmons October 9, 2022: Tom Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler, in Czechoslovakia. His family was Jewish, and on March 15, 1939, the day the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, they fled to Singapore. Before the Japanese occupation of Singapore, Stoppard, his brother, and their mother escaped to India, while his father remained. When Stoppard was four, his father died, and when he was eight, his m…