Zuzana Ruzicková was born on 14 January 1927 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was married to Viktor Kalabis. She died on 27 September 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic.
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.