Věra Kohnová
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Věra Kohnová (1929 in Plzeň - 1942) was a Jewish girl from Czechoslovakia who wrote a diary about her feelings and events under the Nazi occupation.
| “ | I have never cried so much as yesterday, mother still cries and she is so sad and sees everything black. I cry with mother too. | ” |
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[edit] Life
Věra was born to the family of Otakar Kohn, secretary of Teller company. She was twelve when she was writing her diary and wrote it for five months. She didn't write in her diary about the fate of Jews at this time, but mainly about her personal feelings. She was forced to study at home because all schools were closed for Jews. The last record in her diary is "We are here just tomorrow and after tomorrow, who knows what will be then. Bye bye my diary!" [1]. She was in the transport "S" to Theresienstadt on 22 January 1942. Last record about Věra Kohnová comes from 11 March 1942 when she left Theresienstadt with transport "Aa" to another Nazi camp Izbica - transfer station to other death camps. She and her family did not survive. Her diary was hidden by Marie Kalivodová and Miroslav Matouš for 65 years.
[edit] References
- ^ a b TYDEN pg. 68
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- (Czech) Diary
- Diary, Věra Kohnová ISBN 80-86057-40-2
