Marie Hořáková was born in 1918 in Prague, she grew up in Nusle. Marie wanted to study, but her parents disliked the idea. As Marie said in her testimony, at that time a girl was supposed to learn French and marry well.
After the departure of the first deportation transport of Jews in October 1941, an acquaintance from the Sokol movement proposed to her, meaning to protect her by the marriage. They were married within a week. Her husband was fired from work first, then called up into a concentration camp. Thanks to being married to an “Aryan”, Marie was deported to the Terezín ghetto in February of 1945, and was liberated there in May 1945.
The interview was recorded on October 23, 1996 in Prague.