Simplify the following text for a Grade 12 native English-speaking person.
Original: Her mother , Viera Fischer ( nÃ e KrenkovÃ ) , came from the German minority in Slovakia and immigrated from KoÅ ice , Slovakia to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972 .
Simplified: Her mother came from the German minority in Slovakia and emigrated from KoÅ ice in Slovakia to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972 .