Aviva Bar-On (Hebrew: אביבה בר-און; formerly Bedřiška Winklerová; born September 2, 1932) is a Czech-Israeli Holocaust survivor.
When Aviva Bar-On fell ill in Theresienstadt,[2] she met the writer and composer Ilse Weber in the infirmary, who repeatedly sang a "sad but funny song" to the sick children in the concentration camp.
In February 1945, when the collapsing Hitler regime needed foreign currency, 1,200 Jews from the Theresienstadt concentration camp were sold for a million dollars.
In May 1949, Aviva Bar-On and her brother took the last chance to leave their homeland legally and emigrated to Israel with the support of the organization Youth Aliyah.
[1] First she lived in kibbutz Kabri in the north of Israel, then trained as a nurse at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa and finally studied sociology.
[1] In 1956 she married Asher Braun (Bar-On), who comes from Hungary and who had survived the Mauthausen concentration camp and a death march.
[4][5][6] The concert took place on the occasion of Independence Day (Yom haAtzma'ut) and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel and included works by Max Ehrlich, Willy Rosen and Zygfryd Maciej Stryjecki.