The day Nazis began to invade Czechoslovakia, the future author of classic plays like "Arcadia" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" fled the war and escaped the Nazi mass murder of Jews. His parents took him to Singapore, one of the countries where his father's company was resettling employees. Nazis murdered his four grandparents, who could not leave.
Two years later, Stoppard's family had to escape again, when the Japanese invaded Singapore. He, his siblings, and his mother went to Darjeeling, India, while his father volunteered in the British army (he died during the war in 1942). After the war, they settled in London.