I fled from Hitler to England, my parents died in a concentration camp
Edeltrude Landová was born on July 5, 1913 in Ostrava to a family with Jewish roots. Her father was an electrician, her mother was mostly a housewife, earning extra money as a seamstress. She had a nine-year-old sister who was born in America when her parents lived there. They did not keep any Jewish religious traditions at home. Her father joined the Social Democrats. German was spoken at home, Edeltrude did not speak Czech as a child. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the family moved to Slovakia, because the father received a job offer there. She started the first grade of primary school in Trnava, graduated from a private business school, then worked in a company in administration. Just before the Second World War, she was the only one in the family to travel to England for a study-work stay. She graduated from a three-year medical school in Sheffield and then worked at the Czechoslovak military hospital in London until the end of the war. Before the end of the war, she married a Czechoslovak of Jewish descent in England, who at the end of the war organized the repatriation of Czechoslovak citizens back to their homeland. Her parents died in a concentration camp, and she met her sister after the war. She worked as a nurse, for example in the Bulovka hospital. She has lived at the Sue Ryder Home in recent years. She died on March 25, 2010.