Survive for the others
Eva Selucká, née Bokovová, was born on 28 March 1924 into a Jewish family in Bratislava. Her family was well off, but when the Slovak State was founded, all their property was aryanised. When Austria was occupied by Germany in March 1938, the family moved to Zvolen and later to Piešťany. Some of their relatives were deported to the camp in Žilina, some managed to hide, and the witness lived by herself for some time. In autumn 1944 the whole family was deported to Auschwitz. After a week in the camp, the witness was sent to the labour force at Camp Flossenbürg, where she worked in an aircraft factory. The approach of the Allied forces in spring 1945 caused the prisoners to be evacuated to the concentration camp in Mauthausen, where they were liberated. Several days later Eva set off home, to Bratislava. None of her family survived the war. She moved to Brno, where she met her first husband. She and her husband brought up two children, but they later divorced. Her second husband, Egon Weinberger, was a judge, he took part in the Nuremberg Trials, and he was imprisoned in the 1950s. Eva Selucká worked as a clerk, she is now retired and widowed. She lives in Brno.