Jewish Pilsen at the time of the Shoah

Brief Biography of the Witness

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.


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