Now watch clip of testimony of Herta Kozičková, who lived in the house in Kamzíková Street after Schmolková went abroad and thus considered Steiner to be its owner.
Herta Kozičková was born in February 1918 in Prague, into an intellectual family.
During the occupation, she taught Jewish children in illegal home schools. After her deportation to the ghetto in Terezín, she worked as a nurse. From Terezin she was deported to the so-called Terezin family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Fortunately, she was selected for forced labor and escaped the mass murder of the entire camp. She cleaned up the damage after air raids in Hamburg, and met a German woman, Mrs. Schmidt, who secretly supplied food to her. At liberation, she found herself in Bergen-Belsen, among piles of corpses. She contracted typhus and did not even know the camp had been liberated.
After a late return back home, she developed tuberculosis in her eyes and was unable to walk for a long time.
The interview was filmed on 15 October 1996 in Prague.