Mina Pächter

Mina was a Czech Jewish woman born in Frauenberg to Heinrich and Anna Stern. She lived in Bodenbach with her husband Adolf. They had two children together and she cared for the children from his previous marriages.

She enjoyed collecting art and antiques, which when Adolf died in 1915 she turned into a profession. She loved opera, especially Wagner, and she played the piano, although not well. When the region was occupied Mina and her family fled to Prague. She was deported to Theresienstadt on 16th July 1942. She lived in room L/403. In October she narrowly escaped deportation to Treblinka by showing her Red Cross card which she had been awarded during the First World War.

During this time she worked with other women in the room and other women she knew and started collecting recipes on scraps of paper which were sewn together and survive today. She fell ill in 1943 and died a year later in hospital on Yom Kippur in 1944.