(From Jewish Weekly.Com, 4/28/00)

Hella Roubicek, one of 937 Jewish refugees on a ship that was turned away from this country's ports and sent back to Nazi Germany, died April 14 at age 74.

Roubicek, a Berkeley resident, was born in Frankfurt-on-Oder, Germany, and lived for a short time in Belgium before immigrating to the United States.

She married a fellow refugee, attorney Frank Roubicek, who had been prohibited by the Nazis from practicing his profession and survived internment in four concentration camps. The couple raised two daughters here.

Hella Roubicek taught languages in the Richmond Unified School District.