. . "Zinaida Behmuaras: personal papers"@eng . "Zinaida ('Zina') Behmuaras (1912-1977, née Rozenblum) was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. She went to a private German school until May 1930. In 1932 she got married to Leo Behmuaras (born 1910), a Jewish student originally from Czechoslovakia. Zinaida studied at the Pathologic-Anatomical Institute of Vienna from 1936 to 1938. She followed her husband to Montagnac, France, in 1940 where he was stationed with the Czech army at a military training camp. The circumstances of her emigration to England are unclear. According to the accounts of family friends, Zinaida was rescued from Nazi occupied France by an English businessman who brought her to England. Her marriage was annulled in 1946. Zinaida became a British citizen in 1953."@eng . "Zinaida Behmuaras: personal papers"@eng . .