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Eva Rozvoda Wölfler was born on 19 April 1925 in Pilsen. The family took part in the social life of the Jewish community, Eva wanted to become a dentist.
The introduction of anti-Jewish legislation thwarted all her plans. After deportation from Pilsen, she survived the ghetto in Terezin, the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and the Hamburg-Neugraben, Hamburg-Freihafen, Hamburg-Tiefstack and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. After liberation, she was treated for a long time in a British military hospital, contemplated suicide, but eventually decided to live.
After returning to Czechoslovakia, she married a famous Czechoslovak cycling champion, Otakar Rozvoda, with whom she fled the country after the February communist coup in 1948.
The interview was recorded on 20 February 1997 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
Rita Münzerová née Bejkovska, was born on 16 June 1927 in Pilsen, in the family of an important local merchant, Ervin Bejkovsky.
In 1940, her father was arrested by the Gestapo for his resistance activities, was imprisoned at Bory, in the Small Fortress in Terezin and, in 1942, he was murdered in the Mauthausen concentration camp. In January 1942, Rita and her mother were deported to the Terezin ghetto, both of them lived to see the end of the war there. The remaining members of the extended family were murdered in extermination camps.
After returning to Pilsen, both women demanded the return of their family property for a long time and in a complicated way. Without success. Rita married a Pilsen Jew who fought in the British army and, after the communists came to power, they went to Israel together. Rita became a widow there, her only son died in consequence of his injuries in the Six Day War.
The interview was recorded on 4 July 1996 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Eva Macourková was born in Pilsen, she lived with her sister, Hana, and parents, Ruzena and Alfred Sachsel.
At the beginning of the war in September 1939, her father was held hostage and imprisoned first in the Bory prison, Pilsen, later he was transferred to Buchenwald and then to Auschwitz where he was murdered. He never met his family again.
The mother and both daughters were deported on 22 January 1942 by the Pilsen S-transport to the Terezin ghetto. The older Hana worked as a caregiver in a children's home, the younger Eva, among other things, acted in the children's opera Brundibar. Unlike most deported Pilsen Jews, they remained in Terezin until December 1943, when they were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. In early June 1944, they were transported to work in the Christianstadt concentration camp. In the spring of 1945, they left with the death march for Bergen-Belsen where they were liberated by British soldiers. Eva's mother died shortly after liberation as a result of her suffering.
The interview was recorded on 21 May 1996 in Prague.