She would wander into camps and call out the Czech words for Mum and Dad to find out who answered.

Amongst these was Vaclav Hanf who had the dubious claim of being one of the few children to survive the extermination of the village of Lidice in June 1942.

He returned to find his village razed to the ground, his parents murdered but his sisters were miraculously alive.

Other children had been moved to Germany after their parents had either been executed for involvement with the resistance or sent to concentration camps.

She moved to Canada in 1947 and after a career in banking she returned to her home country after the fall of the Soviet empire and she went to live in Bechyně.