She was born and educated in Brno , Czechoslovakia , and survived The Holocaust by inclusion in the Kindertransport , and spent the war years in England . She returned to Czechoslovakia after the war , received a medical degree and training as a pediatrician there . Her Doctoral thesis from the University of Brno was '' Genetika isoamylas : Studie nového lidského polymorfismu . '' ( in English : " Genetics of Isoamylases : Study of the New Human Polymorphism " ) in 1967 . After the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 , she escaped a second time to England , where she worked with Lionel Penrose at the ' Kennedy-Galton Centre for Medical and Community Genetics ' in London on mental retardation . She was then appointed to the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where she worked in its research center for human developmental disabilities , the Waisman Center on prenatal diagnosis and genetics counseling
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Renata Laxova