Věra Kohnová
Vera Kohnova (1929-1942) was a Jewish girl from Czechoslovakia. She wrote a diary about her feelings and about events during the Nazi occupation. Her diary was published in 2006 and in 2023.
Kohnova was born in Plzen in 1929, into the family of Otakar Kohn, a secretary for the Teller company. At the age of twelve she began keeping a diary. She wrote in it for five months, during which time the situation of her family and other Jews in Plzen gradually worsened. She didn't describe the fate of the Jews at the time but wrote mainly about her personal feelings. The last entry in her diary is, "We are here just tomorrow and after tomorrow, who knows what will be then. Bye-bye, my diary!".
On 22 January 1942, the family was put on transport "S" to Theresienstadt. The last record of Vera Kohnova comes from 11 March, when she left Theresienstadt on a transport for another Nazi camp in Izbica--a transfer station to the extermination camps. Although she and her family did not survive, her diary was hidden by Marie Kalivodova and Miroslav Matous for 65 years.
In 2006, the diary was published as a book in Czech, English and German (Czech title: Denik - Vera Kohnova, English title: The Diary of Vera Kohnova, German title: Das Tagebuch der Vera Kohnova), ISBN 80-86057-40-2. In 2023, the diary was published again, completed with newly discovered facts (Czech title: Denik Verky Kohnove", ).
References
Vera Kohnova Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
1929 births
1942 deaths
Holocaust victims
Czechoslovak people
Czech Jews