Evelina Landová was born on 25th December 1930 in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia. Evelina’s half-sister Lisa from her mother’s first marriage was 10 years her senior. Evelina’s father Emil worked his way up to own a horsehair processing company and her mother Ilse was a housewife who came from a wealthy family. Ilse’s father owned 2 houses in Prague in which he rented apartments.
Until Evelina was three years old, the family lived in the Pařížská Street in the city center of Prague. From there the Landa family, and their servant, moved to a modern 4 bedroom apartment in Prague’s quarter Letná. Evelina enjoyed going to school, walking in the park as well as playing with her friends.
On 30 January 1933, when Evelina was only 2 years old, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. Soon after their assumption of power, Nazi leaders began to make good on their pledge to persecute German Jews.
Throughout the 1930s, the Nazis pursued an aggressive foreign policy and behind the scenes they began planning territorial expansion and a European war.
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