I said, ‚Mum, what‘s a gas chamber?‘ I was 14 and you don‘t want to die at 14.
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Eliška Levinská, née Weissová, was born in Vienna, Austria on 20 October 1930 into a Jewish family. She witnessed the Anschluss in Austria in 1938 and then she moved with her parents to Nemošice near Pardubice. The family left for Terezín on the Cg contingent on 9 December 1942 and the witness stayed in the Dresden barracks with her mother. On 8 October 1944, she and her parents were taken to the Auschwitz extermination camp, from where she and her mother left for the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in November 1944. In January 1945, she and her mother were transported to a factory in Raguhn near Dessau. They both went back to Terezín in April 1945 where they witnessed the liberation by the Red Army. Eliška Levinská did not leave Terezín until June 1945. She graduated from a medical school after the war and subsequently worked various jobs. She lived in Pardubice in 2010. She died in 2012.
