I watched the children in Terezín through the cracks in the fence
Eva Křivánková, née Henychová, was born on November 27, 1939 in Poplzy near Libochovice. She and her mother walked along the Terezín fortress, and she remembers watching Jewish children through cracks in the fence. During the war, her mother’s uncle, who worked as a railway worker in Bohušovice, was arrested for sending letters belonging to a Jewish acquaintance. Her uncle returned from the prison in Germany. During the Heydrichiade on July 1, 1942, the Nazis executed Eva’s cousin Jaroslav Kotouč, who collaborated with the Libochovice unit of the Defense of the Nation. Eva graduated in teaching and in 1958 entered a school in Velemín, where she taught all her life. Here she married Josef Křivánek, with whom she had two children.