“Wilma Iggers is born as the first daughter of the Jewish landowner Abeles in 1921 in a small village in Bohemia in the former Czechoslovakia. In 1933 she changes from the German school in Bischofteinitz, today’s Horsovsky Tyn, to the Czech grammar school in Domazlice. Wilma Abeles flees with a large group of relatives shortly after the Munich Agreement and a few days before the German Wehrmacht invades Bohemia and enters Czechoslovakia. From there they emigrate to Hamilton in Canada. Wilma Abeles studies German and Romance languages and literature at a small college in the province of Ontario.”