Photo: Memory of the Nation
Among those receiving an award at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday for promoting the good name of Czechia will be Holocaust survivor and writer Eva Erbenová. Aged 92, she arrived in the country last week on a government plane carrying Czechs from Israel, her home since 1949.
On Thursday Eva Erbenová will receive the Czech Foreign Ministry’s Gratias agit award for promoting the good name of Czechia around the world.
Born into a Jewish family in Bohemia in 1929, Erbenová survived Auschwitz as a teenager. After the war she lived for a time in France before settling in Israel, the country she has called home for seven and a half decades.
The author, who turns 93 next week, recently made headlines as the oldest Czech national brought to her native country on a government repatriation plane, days after Hamas attacked Israel.
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Authors: Ian Willoughby, Alexis Rosenzweig