Jan Antonín Baťa always said he put his people first, says granddaughter Dolores Bata Arambasic

The Baťa family – who built a shoemaking empire in Zlín, Moravia –
were perhaps the most important industrialists in interwar Czechoslovakia.
One of the best-known members of the family was Jan Antonín Baťa, who
headed the firm after the death of Baťa founder Tomáš Baťa, his
half-brother. After fleeing the Nazis in 1939, the tycoon eventually
settled in Brazil, where he established four new cities. His granddaughter
Dolores Bata Arambasic, was born in one of those cities, Batatuba. Today
in
her late 60s, she is a frequent visitor to the Czech Republic. When we
spoke in Prague, I asked what were her strongest recollections of Jan
Antonín Baťa.