Eva Anna Nelson

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Eva Anna was born on July 15th, 1923. She was the first daughter of Leo Brummel (born on March 10th, 1890) and Gertruda (born on September 22nd, 1899, neé Liebsteinová). On March 14th, 1926 their second daughter was born - Eliška Sofie Karolína, usually called Lilly. They lived at 100 Klatovská Street (today 140) and their nanny called Beta lived with them. The father was one of the owners of Brummel, Bloch & Waldstein tannery located at the corner of Kalikova Street and Přemyslova Street. The Brummel family came from Nová Ves. Grandfather Mořic got trained in tanning in Kožlany and moved to Klatovy where the family lived till 1905. Father Leo graduated from the grammar school in Klatovy. During WWI he was captured in Russia and when he got back he took over the tannery in Plzeň. After the company was closed during the depression he worked in Sušice. Leo and his brother Jan married Liebstein sisters - Gertruda and Jana (Jan and Jana Brummel returned from Auschwitz). Markéta Brummelová (Leo's sister who married Leo Eisenschiml) died in Birkenau. They always spoke Czech; only during the joint meals the parents demanded German to be practised. Eva was supposed to improve her German at school - the primary school for girls at Chodské Square. Besides that she sometimes practised French conversation with her mother. In 1934 she entered the grammar school (II. československá státní reálka) where she smoothly adapted to lessons in Czech. Among her classmates she was considered to be "a very talented student with remarkable knowledge who was often presented as a paragon by teachers but remained very modest" (the words of Václav Gruber, one of the classmates). But after finishing the fourth grade she changed to business school at Petákovo Square. In July 1939 she left for Great Britain in one of the Nicolas Winton's transports. --- more: http://pocta-obetem.cz/zmizeli-sousede/pracestudentu/weby/plzen/4.html

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