Vendulka Voglová

Vendulka Voglová

Vendulka Voglová – 13 years old - (born in Czechoslovakia in 1930) moments before the Germans deported her and her Family to the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1943 during World War 2.

These pictures were taken (in secret) by Czech Photographer Jan Lukas whose friendship with Vendulka’s Parents - Karla and Šimon Vogel - began many years before the War.

Vendulka’s family was originally from Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, but moved to Prague after several violent Anti-Jewish and anti-Czechoslovak attacks by the Sudeten Germans there.

(Karla, Vendulka and  Šimon Vogel)

Jan Lukas survived the Germans during World War 2 and fled Communist Czechoslovakia for the United States in the 1960s. He died in 2006 at 91 years old.

Vendulka Voglová survived the Holocaust (including the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto, Auschwitz and Christianstadt – a Sub-Camp of the Gross Rosen Concentration Camp) and fled Communist Czechoslovakia for the United States. She died in 2017 at 87 years old.