Zuzana Ruzicková nació el 14 de enero de 1927 en Pilsen, Czechoslovakia [ahora Czech Republic]. Estuvo casada con Viktor Kalabis. Murió el 27 de septiembre de 2017 en Praga, República Checa.
During WWII, she and her family were deported by the Nazis to the Terezin labor camp. Her father and grandparents died there. She and her mother were sent to Auschwitz, and later Bergen-Belsen, where she contracted bubonic plague.
