Dora Fiksler 's parents were born in Romania and owned animals, when she grew up. Her father was a construction worker. She grew up with six siblings and helped out with the animals in her free time. She attended a Hungarian school for eight years. During the war, she was initially deported to Auschwitz and then further to the Mauthausen concentration camp. There she worked at a factory until her liberation. After the war, she worked as shop assistant in a grocery store in Solotvyno.
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Although Nyzhnye Solotvyno was a mixed Hungarian and Jewish town before World War II, Dora Fiksler recalls that the two populations remained largely separate. The Czechoslovak state, to which Nyzhnye Solotvyno belonged, tried to integrate the populations in school, but Fiksler recalls that most of her friends were still Jewish. Even when the Jews spoke Hungarian, there were still social barriers between the Jews and the Hungarians. As Fiksler concludes, "The Jewish girls went for walks on Saturday; the Hungarian girls went on Sunday."