Antonie Militká was born in 1928 in Brno. Her mother was Jewish, her father was not, but he converted to the Jewish faith because of his marriage, otherwise Antonia's parents would not have allowed the marriage. The family lived directly in the sports complex of the Zionist organization Maccabi on the Riviera, of which the father was the administrator.
According to the anti-Jewish laws in force in the Protectorate, Antonia was classified as a Jewish mixed race. After her expulsion from school, she was ordered to report to Prague, to the deportation assembly point at Radiotrh, where she was escorted by her father and the families of similarly affected friends. She was deported to the ghetto in Terezín on 9 April 1943. Thanks to the fact that her father did not divorce his Jewish wife, her mother was not deported to Terezín until February 1945. Father was imprisoned in the camp in Postoloprty for refusing to divorce a Jewish woman, where he suffered severe injuries and returned as an invalid.
After the liberation, Antonia married and took care of her family. From 1984 she devoted herself to social work and helping the needy in the Brno Jewish community.
The interview was filmed in January 1996 in Brno.
Bedřiška Felixová was born in January 1935 in Brno. Her mother tried to observe Jewish customs, her father was from a very assimilated family.
Bedřiška attended a Jewish school, but also was a talented dancer and went to ballet school. After the occupation she was excluded from these activities, as a Jew. So she learned to read and write at home, on her own, before the deportation. The whole family went to the Terezín ghetto together, two of its five members survived the hardships of the war.
Immediately after liberation, Bedřiška tried to make up for the gaps in her education, graduated from medical school and started her own family. She devoted much of her energy to educational talks with students in which she explained what the Holocaust was all about.
The interview was filmed on 25 January 1996 in Brno.