Doufám, doku dýchám... osudy pěti žen, které přežily holocaust – Vlčková Věra (2020)

The stories of five women who faced the cruelest life experiences that fate had in store for them. They share a common denominator – they survived the Nazi genocide and lost their closest relatives. They never escaped the memories of their suffering, but only in their later years were they able to recount their fates in the most sensitive details, still with unhidden emotional strain. The arrangement of the stories was subordinated to a unified compositional intention: to pursue the greatest authenticity and specificity of the memories, unfolding from the time of the happy family life of young girls, actually still children, and a young mother, to the humiliating cruelty of being classified as a 'subhuman race', experiences of uncertainty, threat, subsequent deportation to an unknown and hostile environment in the incomprehensible labyrinth of concentration camps, as well as the mental and physical suffering with the constant threat of death. Liberation and subsequent life vicissitudes carry not only individual but also societal significance for the following years. ----- The fates of women who committed the 'crime' of being of 'non-Aryan' origin, as captured by Věra Vlčková, will be honorably inscribed in the now extensive literature on the Holocaust. The author preserved all testimonies as she heard them, unembellished and unrefined. The result is…