Letter: Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

Adrian Phillips has recounted the story my father told him, about how Tom Stoppard’s family (originally the Sträusslers) escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1939.

The key person in saving my family and the Sträusslers was Dr Bohuslav Albert, the director of the Bata hospital in Zlin, where my father, Alexander Gellert, and Tom’s father, Eugen Sträussler, worked as doctors.