About Vera (Oravec) Laska, heroine of Resistance
“Both harrowing and empowering in the same dark times, Resistance is an extremely engaging true story of one incredible young woman and her epic survival in the darkest chapter of human history, all the more inspirational because it is real history.”
— Reviewer for The Black List
Articles
The Boston Globe
Vera Laska’s obituary.
Everything Czech
Overview of Vera Laska’s life.
International Spy Museum
Vera Laska’s “dossier” in the International Spy Museum's "Student Spy Guide" (on page 33).
Books
Memoir
Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses by Vera Laska.
Anthology
Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard contains a chapter penned by Vera Laska.
“When I met the American liberators face to face on that glorious April day in 1945 near my last concentration camp in Germany, they were surprised to hear that women had also been in concentration camps, and equally incredulous to find out that women were also in the resistance, facing the same dangers, torture, execution or gas chambers as the men.”
— Vera (Oravec) Laska
Shoah Testimony
Vera Laska’s complete Shoah Testimony. “Bonus” footage at end of video (timecode 2:26:12).
PBS
Vera Laska appears in the PBS short documentary The Triumph of Memory.
