Testimony of Eva (Mekynova) Hefer, born in Trinec, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Frydek, Ostrava and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Eva (Mekynova) Hefer, born in Trinec, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Frydek, Ostrava and Theresienstadt Life before the war; daughter of a non-Jewish father and a Jewish mother; re-annexation to Poland; move to Hutin; move to Moravska Ostrava; move to Frydek; German occupation, March 1939; information regarding imminent deportation to Theresienstadt; setting up a hiding place; escape to Ostrava; life in Ostrava; deportation to Theresienstadt, September 1942; camp life; release from deportation to Treblinka; transfer to the youth barracks; filming of a movie during a visit from the Red Cross, July 1944; liberation, May 1945. Return to Ostrava; aliya to Israel, January 1949.