A member of “Hanoar Hatzioni” from her youth, in 1941 Vera joined her movement’s “hahshara”. After the Germans invaded Hungary (19.3.1944) she moved to a hiding place in the district of Zugló, from which she distributed forged Aryan papers.
That hiding place was discovered. Sigfrid Roth and Leon Blatt, the leaders of Hanoar Hatzioni were in charge of that underground activity. Vera and her comerades were taken by the Gestapo to Svábhegy for interrogation. Vera was deported to Auschwitz and from there to other concentration camps, but survived. Upon her return to Hungary, she restored her life and studied in a Budapest university philosophy and psychology. In 1956 Vera moved from Hungary to England, where she worked as a psychologist in a hospital and as a lecturer in the University of Leicester.At present Vera lives in England.
