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Vera Laska began her career in the Czech resistance when she was a student and only 15 years old. The mountainous terrain in southern Slovakia was familiar to her from years of hiking and skiing there. She became a "conductor" on an underground railroad which moved prisoners of war and Jews out of Poland and into Hungary and Yugoslavia.
She was eventually captured, sent to Auschwitz and two other concentration camps. She survived. Laska went on to earn a doctoral degree in American History from the University of Chicago and now teaches at a college in Massachusetts. |