Tomas Bata Family, Forest Cemetery Zlin (Lesní Hřbitov Zlin)
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Tomas Bata Family, Forest Cemetery Zlin (Lesní Hřbitov Zlin)
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Tomáš Baťa (Czech pronunciation: [ˈtomaːʃ ˈbaca]) was an entrepreneur, founder of the Bata Shoes company, one of the world's biggest multinational retailers, manufacturers and distributors of footwear and accessories. Tomáš Baťa died in a plane crash (Junkers J13 D1608) in 1932 near the Zlín airport, trying to fly to Möhlin in Switzerland on a business trip under bad weather conditions (dense local fog). After his demise, his half-brother Jan Antonín Baťa took over ownership of the Bata companies and eventually fled to the United States due to the Nazi occupation in 1939, and later settled in Brazil.He founded the famous Zlin aircraft works two years after Tomáš Baťa's death. Tomas' son, Thomas John Bata ,anticipating the Second World War, along with over 100 families from Czechoslovakia moved to Canada in 1939 to develop the Bata Shoe Company of Canada centered in a town that still bears his name, Batawa, Ontario. He established a "garden cemetery" on the outskirts of Zlin where he was laid to rest.
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