Vera Kohnova (F / Czechia, 1929-1942), Holocaust victim

Vera Kohnová (F / Czechia, 1929-1942), Holocaust victim

• KEYWORDS : <Theresienstadt> <death>

• MEMOIRS : The Diary of Vera Kohnová (2006)

Biography

Vera Kohnová was born in Plzeň in 1929, into the family of Otakar Kohn, a secretary for the Teller company. As Czech Jews they were persecuted during the Nazi occupation.

On 22 January 1942, the family was put on transport "S" to Theresienstadt. The last record of Věra Kohnová comes from 11 March 1942, when she left Theresienstadt on a transport for another Nazi camp in Izbica—a transfer station to the extermination camps.

Book : The Diary of Vera Kohnová (2006)

• The Diary of Vera Kohnová / Deník Vera Kohnová / Das Tagebuch der Vera Kohnová (Stredokluky : Published by Zdenek Susa, Vimperk (CZ) : Printed by Akcent, 2006).

Trilingual edition (Czech-English-German) of the diary written by Holocaust victim Vera Kohnová (1929-1942) in 1941 (age 12), while living in Czechia under Nazi occupation.

"In 1941, at the age of twelve, a Czech Jewish girl, Vera Kohnová, began keeping a diary. She wrote in it for five months, during which time the situation of her family and other Jews in Plzeň gradually worsened. She didn't describe the fate of Jews of the time but wrote mainly about her personal feelings. The last entry in her diary is, "We are here just tomorrow and after tomorrow, who knows what will be then. Bye-bye, my diary!". Although she and her family did not survive, her diary was hidden by Marie Kalivodová and Miroslav Matouš for 65 years."--Publisher description.