after the war, capek returned to prague and worked for the red cross, tending to the sick and dying who had returned from europe's concentration camps. it was there that she learnt that her fiancé, sisi, had died of dysentery soon after being transferred from theresienstadt. it was also there that she re-united with fred capek. fred and his late-wife greta, who was murdered at auschwitz, had been capek's supervisors at the jewish youth hostel she attended in prague before the war. within a year, capek and fred were married, and expecting their first son, john.