Zdenka Fantlová (28 March 1922 – 14 November 2022) was a Czech actor, writer and Holocaust survivor.
She and her family, like large parts of the Jewish population in Czechoslovakia, were deported in January 1942 to the ghetto in Theresienstadt, where her boyfriend Arno had also previously been taken.
[1] Under difficult circumstances, Zdenka kept the pewter ring as a memento of her youthful love, and it later became part of the title of her autobiography.
Fantlová stayed for a time in Sweden, where she received care and recovery under the auspices of the Red Cross.
For many years, she came to visit schools and other organisations and tell about her experiences of Nazi abuse during the Second World War.