She lived without her parents for nine months, she did not recognize her father after the war
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Eva Krabcová was born on 12 April 1938 into a mixed Czech-Jewish family. Her father Štěpán Holub ran a clothing store in Valašské Meziříčí. Her mother Hilda, née Steinhardt, was of Jewish origin. In 1942, 36 relatives from her mother’s side disappeared in concentration camps, none of them survived the war. The Holub family, who, as a mixed family, were not initially affected by the deportations, stayed together until early 1944. Then her father Štěpán was interned in a labour camp in Bystřice near Benešov. About six months after him, in September 1944, her mother also left in a transport, first to the internment camp at Hagibor in Prague, then to Terezín. Six-year-old Eva stayed in the apartment of her aunt, Hilda Holubová. This aunt, the wife of her father’s brother, who was also Jewish, was hidden in the hospital in Vizovice by the brave headmaster after she gave birth to a child there. Eva and her newborn cousin were cared for in her aunt’s apartment by a girl who Hilda had previously had as a helper. After the war, Eva was reunited with both parents. She graduated from the Faculty of Education and Philosophy and taught Czech and Russian all her life. Since 1997 she has been a member of Hidden Child, an organization for Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. She was the president of this association from 2018 to 2021.
