I live because others don’t
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Zuzana Sternová was born in 1947 in Nitra. Both of her parents lost their partners during the Holocaust and got married after the war. With the bitterness in her voice she says that she lives because others don’t. Zuzana’s mother together with her first husband and her stepsister were hiding at various families. Later, the Hlinka Guard found them, however, her sister Vierka wasn’t caught. They were transported by the lorry, from which her mother jumped out with the tragic consequences for her husband, who was beaten to death. Zuzana’s father survived thanks to family’s late transport to concentration camp in 1945. He worked in a forced labour camp somewhere in Poland. Zuzana Sternová is often being labelled as the first lady of Slovak Architecture. She is one of the first designers working on projects using thermal insulation cladding for apartment buildings.
