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Vera (Oravec) Laska, who was not Jewish, joined the Czech
Underground in 1938, at the age of 15. Vera and her friends hiked
well. They escorted POWs and Jews across the border.
Vera worked out of Czech Underground Headquarters in Budapest
until her cover was blown. She was interrogated and put on a train
to be brought to the police for "supervised residency." When
changing trains, her guard allowed her to go to the ladies' room,
where she shed her coat, made an apron out of a scarf, grabbed a
broom, and exited through a window.
Vera Laska was on the Nazis' most wanted list until they took her
mother to Auschwitz, whereupon Vera surrendered. She arrived at
Auschwitz on the day they gassed her mother. She earned
master's degrees from Charles University, Prague and authored
''Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust." Vera Laska died
December 11, 2005 in Weston, Massachusetts at the age of 82.
Underground in 1938, at the age of 15. Vera and her friends hiked
well. They escorted POWs and Jews across the border.
Vera worked out of Czech Underground Headquarters in Budapest
until her cover was blown. She was interrogated and put on a train
to be brought to the police for "supervised residency." When
changing trains, her guard allowed her to go to the ladies' room,
where she shed her coat, made an apron out of a scarf, grabbed a
broom, and exited through a window.
Vera Laska was on the Nazis' most wanted list until they took her
mother to Auschwitz, whereupon Vera surrendered. She arrived at
Auschwitz on the day they gassed her mother. She earned
master's degrees from Charles University, Prague and authored
''Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust." Vera Laska died
December 11, 2005 in Weston, Massachusetts at the age of 82.