People think that the holocaust is made up, and that’s how it was for a long time
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Zita Kurzová was born on July 19, 1944 in Trenčín. Her parents experienced great luck during the war when they were recalled from a train heading to Auschwitz in 1942. It was thanks to the fact that Zita’s father played football and his fans spoke up for him. When she was six weeks old, her parents hid her with the Rehák family and they themselves hid in the woods, since all exceptions for Jews ceased to apply at that time. No one betrayed the little girl, and even Zita’s parents lived through the war and came to pick up their daughter, who was doing very well with an unknown family. The Löwenbeins then returned to Trenčín, where Zita graduated from primary school and later from medical school. She then worked as a nurse in a hospital in Trenčín. In 1966, she married Peter Kurz, also a Jew, who also hid from the Nazis as a child. Zita then did a two-year extension at school and worked on histology. She and her husband had two children together, and she retired in 2014 at the age of seventy. Then they persuaded her to return to work for a year. She never forgot the courage and kindness of the Rehák family. She found one of the Rehákov brothers – Petar and remained in intensive contact with him. In 2014, she arranged for the Rehák family to receive the Righteous Among the Nations award.
