Address: VELETRŽNÍ 196/17, PRAGUE 7 
Born 11. 04. 1913
Last residence before deportation: Prague XIII
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XII, nám. Krále Jiřího 23
Transport N, no. 328 (17. 12. 1941, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Aa, no. 59 (11. 03. 1942, Terezín -> Izbica)
Murdered
She was born on the 11th April 1913 in Prague to Ludvik Taussig and Kamilla Taussigová (rozená Ornsteinová). Both her parents had been born in Prague in 1875 and 1887 respectively.
Her elder brother, Leo, was born in 1909, and her younger brother, Jiří, in 1924.
She trained and qualified as a speech therapist. On the 17th February 1935 she married František Vrba, a lawyer. Their only child, Ivan, was born on the 13th October 1936.
Together with her husband and son she was deported from Prague to Terezín on the 17th December 1941. Almost three months later, on the 11th March 1942, all three were forced on to transport Aa, the first to go from Terezín to the Lublin region of Poland and specifically to the Izbica Ghetto.
If she survived the two-day transport to the Izbica Ghetto there are several scenarios as to where and when she lost her life. Possibly within the ghetto itself given the ghastly conditions there or at the open collection point at the nearby railhead or a few weeks later at the Belzec extermination camp. If she were one of the five hundred Jews on Transport Aa that were marched on the 18th March 1942 to the settlement of Kraśniczyn she could have perished in one of Sobibor, Majdanek or Belzec extermination camps in the months ahead.
An indication that she may well have seen foreseen difficult times ahead following the Nazi occupation of Prague in March 1939 are the photo albums now in her descendants possession. It is quite likely she gave these to a non-Jewish friend in c.1940 for safe keeping for the future.
Her parents, Ludvik and Kamilla, following deportation in October 1941 from Prague to the Łódź Ghetto in Poland, lost their lives at the Chelmno extermination camp in May 1942. Her brother, Leo, reached Palestine as an illegal Jewish immigrant in February 1940, and served in the Czechoslovak Army in the Middle East, North Africa and England.