Eva Eisner

* 1936

  • "I had a normal visa, but it had expired. And now I came from that communist and hostile state to visit a meritorious citizen of the State of Israel, who was my aunt. I was moving around in Israel for four weeks. And by the way, on the first day after those four hours, I became aggressive and attacked a policeman. I told him that I thought Israel was a free state and that I was coming from prison to a free state to visit. And here I find nothing but the same things I have at home in Prague. And even worse. I was really moody and especially at that time I was already trained by the Czechoslovakian conditions. So I was aggressive in certain situations, instead of meekly saying, 'Yes, comrades, of course.' And the same thing in Israel, whereupon the Slovak guy said to me, 'But don't forget, we are still in a state of war.'"

  • "We were on August 11... we were in Berlin. Overnight. On the way from the island and in Berlin we just stayed overnight and then went on. And two days after that, on August 13, I wake up in the morning and our very good Czechoslovak Radio is reporting that the wall is being built. Of course, I was amazed, thinking that I had been there some time ago. Of course, there was no mention of the wall at that time. Because it was a surprise action as they were building the wall. In the morning."

  • "When we went into the 'tile house' he said, 'That's the comrade in charge of some department.' So I said I had two hours of Russian and that I was having a hard time getting into the faculty. ' And I would be awfully glad if you would call and have them excuse me for being there and not being able to come.' He said they would, and even did it in front of me. He called the dean's office to tell the comrade - he was such an old Russian idiot - that I was excused for an official meeting. Then he started asking me if after all I was going with my father to the Israeli embassy in Voršilská or wherever it was. And that we were there for various Jewish holidays. Then he started showing me photos - if I knew this one and that one. I said I didn't know, that I'd never seen those photos in my life, but then I saw a cop there, who everybody knew was a cop. He'd always show up on different occasions. And I said to them, 'But I know this guy and I'm sure you know him too.' He didn't say anything. He interrogated me for an hour, but compared to the Jewish Mossad years later, it was still a very pleasant conversation."

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I was interrogated by both State Security and Mossad. When we emigrated, the Jewish organization took care of us

Eva Eisner was born on 6 July 1936 in Prague. Her father Artur Bloch was a Jew from Vienna, her mother Markéta Blochová came from the family of Otto Bergmann, a successful Jewish businessman. He ran a German business school in Prague. Witness´s mother was a doctor, while her father worked as a business assistant for most of his life. The Bloch family travelled to Palestine in 1939, where they spent the entire war. They then returned to Prague, where Eva Eisner attended grammar school, graduating in 1953. She applied to medical school three times, but only managed to get in through the intercession of a friend. She graduated in 1959. During her studies, she worked part-time at the Youth Travel Agency and travelled abroad. Her first medical job was at the Jáchymovské Mines National Health Institute in Příbram, then she worked as a district doctor in Prague 6. In February 1968 she married Edvard Eisner, with whom she and her mother went on holiday to Vienna in August 1968. They never returned. They emigrated to Switzerland, where she lived in 2025.