Now watch a clip of testimony of Věra Vrbová, who worked in the nursery.
Věra Vrbová was born in 1923 in Sušice.
The pressure of the local Nazis in her hometown was unbearable after the occupation of the borderlands, and Věra moved to Prague to study. After the universities were closed, she took a nursery course and worked in a nursery set up by the Jewish community. Later she was put in charge of a children's group in Zásmuky.
In 1942, she married Bedřich Borger, who was in charge of organizing care for the lonely elderly in the Jewish community's old-age homes. Together with the old-age home in Krakovská Street, the newlyweds were deported to the ghetto in Terezín. Bedřich Borger was deported from Terezín to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, survived the selection process and was chosen for slave labour. He died at the very end of the war, in April 1945, of malnutrition and typhus. Vera and her friend escaped from the Terezín ghetto just before the end of the war. She remarried and started a family.
The interview was filmed on 18 January 1996 in Prague.
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