Eva Klepetar, nee Tanzer, was born in Graz, Austria on March 6, 1917. Before World War II, she lived at Kolinska II, Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was trained as an X-ray technician and operating room technician, and worked as medical assistant in a German university hospital in Prague. She was deported to Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in July 1942, then Auschwitz. She was forced under slave labor in Oederan, Germany in a munitions factory. After the war, she went to Shanghai, China and in 1949 to the United States