Now watch testimonies of Helena and Walter Kraus.
Helena Krausová was born in July 1921 in Teplice - Šanov. After the occupation of the Czechoslovak border area, she fled with her parents to Prague. There she joined the illegal emigration transport organized by Robert Mandler. From Prague she left for Bratislava and then along the Danube to the Romanian port of Sulina. After initial difficulties, she boarded the Sakaria, a ship chartered by the revisionist Zionist organization, and sailed to Palestine.
On arrival she was arrested by the British police and interned in the Atlit camp. After her release, she worked on a farm and joined the Czechoslovak army, through which she met her future husband, Valtr. She served with the army in Egypt.
Valtr Kraus was born in October 1912 in Prague. Unlike his wife, he was imprisoned in Bratislava for a month and a half by the Hlinka Guard, a paramilitary strike force of the ruling Nazi party in Slovakia. On arrival to Haifa, he was interned in the Sarafand camp, after his release he joined the Czechoslovak army and married Helena. After returning to Czechoslovakia, he did not get a good job because of his "class origins", i.e. he was labeled a bourgeois element.
Both interviews were filmed on 25 April 1996 in Prague.
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