Aviva Bar-On

Aviva Bar-On (; formerly Bedřiška Winklerová; born September 2, 1932) is a Czech-Israeli Holocaust survivor.

Biography Aviva Bar-On was born as Bedřiška Winklerová in a Jewish family on September 2, 1932, in Miroslav, Czechoslovakia. Her parents were Josef and Adele Winkle. Her father ran a sawmill, and he was also an educator. She had a brother, Felix. After the occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938, the family fled to Brno, where they lived with their uncle and his family. The family was separated here and Aviva Bar-On was allowed to stay with her mother. When Aviva Bar-On fell ill in Theresienstadt, 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. At 85, Aviva Bar-On also performed and presented a song by Ilse Weber who died in 1944 in the gas chamber of Auschwitz, the text and melody of which were not handed down in writing, but through Aviva's memory.

Personal life Aviva Bar-On has three children, eleven grandchildren and already several great-grandchildren.