Meyers, Anna Sipl, 1943-

Ann Meyers (born Anna Sipl) was born on April 26, 1943, in Krindija, Yugoslavia, now Croatia, near the Danube. Her family was part of the ethnic German population that was persecuted, massacred or expelled by Marshal Josip Broz Tito’s Partisans to the neighboring village of Gakowa, which became a concentration camp during World War II. After struggling for years in Austria, Meyer’s father applied to immigrate to the United States. They were refused asylum twice, the first time because of her Oma's [grandmother’s] and again because of Michael's infirmity. When the father used a Yugoslav instead of German spelling of their name, they were finally accepted. Meyers met her second husband, Leon Meyers, in Ohio. They got married in 1969 and moved together to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1976. She became a real estate investor for many casinos on the Las Vegas Strip.