Dalma Špitzerová

Dalma Špitzerová (; 5 February 1925 – 21 January 2021) was a Slovak actor and acting teacher. She grew up in Liptovský Mikuláš. In 1942, at the age of 16, she fled to Hungary seeking refuge from deportation to concentration camps. When she was caught in Hungary, she was sent to Nováky Assembly Camp, where she developed a passion for theatre and acting. Following the end of World War II, Špitzerová went onto become an actress in multiple theatres in Slovakia. Špitzerová was also the Slovakia winner of the 2019 Memory of Nations Awards.

Childhood Špitzerová was born on 5 February 1925 in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). She spent her whole childhood in Liptovský Mikuláš with her father, mother, and four siblings. Her sisters were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, but Špitzerová was temporarily put in a local prison in Uzhhorod and later deported to a camp in Slovakia.

Nováky Assembly Camp Špitzerová was in the Nováky Assembly Camp for two years. She worked as a seamstress in one of the workshops making backpacks. Špitzerová was never transported to a camp in Poland because a Czech architect was in charge of the work camp and informed the German soldiers that he needed the labor. They sewed backpacks for 10 hours a day and were given limited food. Špitzerová never joined the Communist party.