Kafka's family remembers

Věra Saudková was born in 1921 to Josef David and his wife Otylia, born Kafka. Her mother came from a Jewish family, her father not.
After the occupation her parents divorced, Věra was designated as a Jewish “half-breed”. For some time she worked as an instructor at the studio of one of the first propagators of sporting exercise for women, Běla Friedländer. Her aunts Elli and Valli with families were deported already in October of 1941, to the ghetto in Lodz. Her mother was deported in August of 1942 to the ghetto in Terezín. A left-wing activist Karel Projsa originally proposed to marry Otylia Kafka, Věra’s mother, once she stopped being protected by her marriage to the “Aryan” Josef David. When she refused, Projsa proposed to Věra, offering her the same protection. Věra accepted and survived the war. After the war she worked as an editor and translator. The interview was recorded on March 24, 1997.