I think it was in 2013, when I was living in Prague.
I was invited to the exhibition Fireflies in the dark, featuring drawings by Jewish children from the concentration camp of Theresienstadt. Often next to each drawing you could see a photograph of the young artist. GERTRUDA EISINGER was very beautiful.
Gertl was born in Vienna on December 27, 1931. Today she could have been my oma, a very beautiful oma!
After Hitler annexed Austria, GERTRUDA and her parents fled to Prague. But when the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, here parents were forced to flee again, taking refuge in Palestine. GERTRUDA remained in Prague with her aunt and uncle. I found her home, I also found her school, I imagined her running around happily with her classmates.
GERTRUDA spent her childhood in Prague until July 16, 1942, when she was forced to leave Prague for the concentration camp in Theresienstadt with her aunt and uncle.
I went to the Bubny station in Prague from where trains departed for Theresienstadt.
I went to Theresienstadt.
GERTRUDA spent more than two years in Theresienstadt, until October 23, 1944 when she was deported to Auschwitz and sent directly to the gas chamber.
GERTRUDA EISINGER, geboren in WIEN am 27 Dezember 1931, ermordet in AUSCHWITZ am 23 Oktober 1944.
In liebevoller Erinnerung.