The former Czechoslovak national soccer player Martin Uher ran a textiles business in Bratislava. In 1941 he met the Jewish woman Elizabet Fleischerová and her parents Regina and Karol. In 1942 tens of thousands of Slovak Jews were handed over to Germany and deported to extermination camps. Uher therefore hid Elizabet Fleischerová in his relatives’ house in the village of Vištuk.
In 1943 the Fleischers were at risk of being put into a forced labor camp. Uher took them to Hungary to avoid the camp. After the German invasion of Hungary in March of 1944, Uher went to Budapest and brought them back to Slovakia.
In 1944 Slovakia was also occupied by the German Wehrmacht and the deportations resumed. Uher hid Fleischerová’s parents in the storage room of his shop, where he also sheltered other people at risk. He took Elizabet to his relatives’ home in Vištuk once again.
After liberation, Martin Uher and Elizabet Fleischerová married and had a son. They remained friends even after their later separation. Uher was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem in 1990.