Vera Schiff
Awarded Order of Canada in 2020
Awarded two Honorary Doctorates; Thompson Rivers University (2020) and UNB-Saint John (2012, shown left)
Widowed, 2 children, 6 grandchildren, great-grandchildren
Retired medical technologist, author, public speaker
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1926
Lived in Czechoslovakia, Israel, Canada
Parents: Elsa and Zibrid, died in transit camp Theresienstadt
Stolpersteine Location
19 Ovenecká, Prague, Czechia
Vera Schiff is currently (May 2021) in the process of commissioning STOLPERSTEINE for her mother Elsa, father Zibrid and sister Eva in the Czech city of Prague. As of May 2021, the inscription has been approved. She is in the process of applying for city permits looking at a potential September 2021 installation date. The address of the stones will be Ovenecká 19, Prague, the address, where the family lived prior to deportation.