Eva Ochodničanová was born in 1942. Both her parents were of Jewish origin. Her father Ján worked as a doctor in Fridman, a town in the Tatra Mountains, which today belongs to Poland.
Her mother Alžbeta was a little younger, so she did not finish her medical studies because she was expelled for racial reasons. Her father’s family – the Reizs family – also had their inn in Malacky condemned.
The family lived in the borderland, probably on an exception, which was probably provided to the father by the folk poet Rudolf Dilong. Rudolf Dilong was partner of Jan’s sister Valéria. After the uprising, family had to go into hiding, sheltered by the hermit Mieczysława Faryniak. Eva was hidden by the widow Helena Sowa, who had several small children. There, in January 1945, they lived to see the liberation. After the war, Eva was finally able to meet her maternal grandparents, who had also managed to save her. Dad started practicing medicine again. Eva graduated in ophthalmology and did this work until the coronavirus pandemic arrived. Her father died in 1988, followed four months later by her mother.
In 1990 also died Mieczyslawa, who today the Poles want to have beatified.
The full story of the witness can be found in the online archive Memory of Nations.