Now watch the testimony of Marianna Beck.
Mariana Becková was born in May 1920 in Brno.
She graduated from a reform gymnasium school, had a university exam in English and wanted to become a nurse.
After the occupation, she began working in the outpatient clinic of the Jewish community in Brno, as a nurse and social worker, caring for the children of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. She continued to work in the field of health care and with children even after the deportation to the Terezín ghetto. When boarding the transport that was to take her from Terezín to Poland, she managed to escape and hide in the ghetto.
After the liberation she stayed in Terezín and took care of orphans in the typhus quarantine, after a while she moved to Prague. She married a doctor, a fellow prisoner from Terezín.
The interview was filmed on 26 February 1997 in Prague.
Why do you think Mariana gave up the possibility of emigrating to England?