“When my sister, Greta Paschová, learned that her husband was on the list for a transport out of Terezín, she took her daughter, Zuzka, and went to see the commander in charge, an SS-woman named Hoppe who insisted on being called Dr. Hoppe.

“What does the Jewess want?” Hoppe asked. Greta explained that they were a family and begged the SS-woman to keep them together.

“So what, at least this way there will be no more stinking Jews born, when the males and females are separated,” was the answer.

“None of us stinks,” my sister responded.

Hoppe prompty dealt her a big slap on the face. Zuzka, a girl of fifteen, jumped on the woman and started tearing her hair, scratching, biting.. until she was disengaged by two aides and her own terrified mother.

Next day, family was united - in the transport.”