Elizabet Fleischerová lived in Bratislava with her parents Karol and Regina and her brother Pavlo. After the Catholic nationalist Hlinka party took power in 1939, the Jewish family was persecuted. When a major wave of deportations took place in Bratislava in 1942, Fleischerová’s acquaintance Martin Uher hid her in his relatives’ house in Vištuk. In 1943 she was put into a camp but was able to escape with help from Uher’s brother-in-law Belo Bača. Bača and his wife Katherina took her in.
Elizabet and her parents Regina and Karol Fleischer fled to Hungary with Martin Uher’s help in 1943. After the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, Uher went to Budapest and brought the Fleischers back to Slovakia, where they went underground.
When Slovakia was occupied by the Wehrmacht in the fall of 1944, Uher once again took Fleischerová to his relatives’ home in Vištuk, where she remained until her liberation in 1945. Her parents were arrested and deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. They both survived.
Elizabet Fleischerová and Martin Uher married and had a son. They remained friends even after their later separation.