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tennis champion Traute Kleinova was a member of the Maccabi
Club of
Brno and the Czechoslovakian Corbillion
Cup (World Championship)
women’s teams of 1935 and 1936. In
1936, with partner Miloslav Hamer,
she also won the World Mixed Doubles
title.
Deported by the Nazis in 1941,
Kleinova survived both the Theresienstadt
and Auschwitz World War II concentration
camps and emigrated to the
United States following the war. |