**Kurt Werner **was born on 15 August 1925 in Moravská Ostrava.
He attended a Czech elementary school and later a high school which he was forced to leave at the beginning of the occupation. In his youth, he became a member of the Zionist youth organization Blau-Weiss (Techelet-Lavan in Hebrew) which focused on hiking and nature.
In 1942, he was deported to the Terezín ghetto with his parents and brother. His father died of tuberculosis in Terezín. In 1943, Kurt was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau with his mother and brother. Later, in 1943, they were transported with some other prisoners to the Golleschau concentration camp. There, Kurt became part of a group that was put to slave labour in a quarry. At the end of the war, Kurt survived a brutal death march and deportation by freight trains to the Dachau camp.
After returning to Czechoslovakia, he and his future wife decided to emigrate to Uruguay.
The interview was filmed on 28 October 1997 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Judith Diamant, née Riffová, was born on 21 July 1932 in Moravská Ostrava.
She attended a Czech elementary school but had to leave it after the Nazi occupation. The only school she could attend for a short period of time was the Jewish school in Kostelní Street.
Before she was transported to the Terezín ghetto, she was hiding with her friends in Zlín. Her mother died of tuberculosis in Terezín. Fortunately, Judith was not deported from Terezín and stayed there until liberation.
After returning to Ostrava, she decided to move to her uncle in London, where she completed her secondary school studies. She started working in Nairobi, where she married Wolf Diamant. They lived in Milan for some time, later moving to Cape Town, South Africa.
The interview was filmed on 8 February 1996 in Claremont, South Africa.
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