During World War II, she survived both forced labour and concentration camps including the Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Christianstadt, Niesky and Görlitz.
However after the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, she wasn't accepted into the English-language grammar school, because admission of Jewish students was limited.
Before being split up and sent to a women's camp, Hyndráková lived with her family close to the gas chambers and the crematorium initially.
[1] After that, Hyndráková was transferred to the Christianstadt labor camp, where she toiled away hauling out stumps, felling trees, and shovelling sand.
[2] In May 1945 German camp guards marched to the west with the captives with hope of turning themselves to the Americans, before the Red Army arrives.
She managed the Institute for the History of the Czechoslovak Communist Party's photo archive after giving birth,[3] and subsequently the Jewish Museum's Holocaust documentation centre.
[1] Anna's own accounts of the Holocaust are very valuable and provide nuanced descriptions of what life was like for young Jewish women surviving World War II.
Hyndráková's accounts are particularly useful to historians because they offer a different perspective on the sexual encounters that Jewish women who survived the Holocaust had.
She aided in the compilation of extensive collections for the Jewish Museum in Prague focused on first hand accounts of the Holocaust by witnesses and survivors alike.