Eva's Story
by Eva Schloss
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People around the world know the tragic story of Anne Frank, the teenage girl who lost her life in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. But most people don't know about Eva Schloss, Anne's playmate and posthumous stepsister. Though Eva, like Anne, was imprisoned in Auschwitz at the age of 15, her story did not end there. Together with her mother, Eva endured daily degradation and countless miseries at the hands of the Nazis. She was freed in 1945, but it would be decades before Eva was show more able to share her survivor's tale with the world. Concluding with new discussion questions and a revealing interview with Eva, this moving memoir recounts-without bitterness or hatred-the horrors of war, the love between mother and daughter, and the strength and determination that helped a family overcome danger and tragedy. show lessTags
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This is one of those books that everyone should read. It is not enjoyable obviously due to the subject matter, but it is so important that everyone knows what happened so as to prevent it happening again.
Eva fled to Amsterdam with her family when the Germans invaded Austria, living on the same estate as Anne Frank and her family. Although she knew Anne, I believe they did not know each other well. The story follows Eva and her mother as they go into hiding separately from her brother and father. It goes on to follow the betrayal of their hiding places which resulted in them being sent to Auschwitz when Eva was 15. Eva was fortunate in that, despite a couple of short periods, she was not separated from her mother. Eva was also lucky in show more some respects as she had a cousin who was working as a nurse in the camp. This saved her mother from the gas chamber and ultimately helped the pair of them survive (barely) until the liberation of the camp. The story does not, however, finish there, but follows the pair as they are transported from the camp, eventually finding their way back to their home in Amsterdam. Sadly, Eva's father and brother did not survive.
Whilst at Auschwitz, Eva and her mother realised that Otto Frank was also there. After they had returned to Amsterdam, Otto and Eva's mother became friends through sharing their experiences together. They eventually married, making Eva the posthumous step-sister of Anne Frank. show less
Eva fled to Amsterdam with her family when the Germans invaded Austria, living on the same estate as Anne Frank and her family. Although she knew Anne, I believe they did not know each other well. The story follows Eva and her mother as they go into hiding separately from her brother and father. It goes on to follow the betrayal of their hiding places which resulted in them being sent to Auschwitz when Eva was 15. Eva was fortunate in that, despite a couple of short periods, she was not separated from her mother. Eva was also lucky in show more some respects as she had a cousin who was working as a nurse in the camp. This saved her mother from the gas chamber and ultimately helped the pair of them survive (barely) until the liberation of the camp. The story does not, however, finish there, but follows the pair as they are transported from the camp, eventually finding their way back to their home in Amsterdam. Sadly, Eva's father and brother did not survive.
Whilst at Auschwitz, Eva and her mother realised that Otto Frank was also there. After they had returned to Amsterdam, Otto and Eva's mother became friends through sharing their experiences together. They eventually married, making Eva the posthumous step-sister of Anne Frank. show less
This emotional and powerful story is yet another testimony of the will to survive despite incredible odds.
Life as she knew it ended for Eva Schloss with the German invasion of Holland. After two years of hiding, her family was betrayed, and tragically she was captured on her 15th birthday.
Her brother and father were sent to Auschwitz and she and her mother were cattled in trains to Birkenau death camp.
Much like Thomas Buergenthal, author of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, Eva did not tell her tale until many years had passed.
Forty years after the Russian army liberated the death camps, she began to put memory to written word.
She chronicles the terror, the dehumanization, the rat, flea, bed bug, stench show more filled, cramped surroundings, the fear of illness least she would be sent to the ever smoking ovens, the heart breaking separation of her family and death of her father and brother.
Like Buergenthal and others, her life was spared time and again through a series of lucky events, kind people who helped and sacrificed and through sheer determination and will power.
Later, after she and her mother returned to Holland, they were visited by Otto Frank, a family friend who was imprisoned in Auschwitz with her father and brother.
Heartbroken, Otto learned that he lost his beloved wife Edith who died from exhaustion and starvation shortly before the Russians liberated the campus. His two daughters, Anne and Margot, both died from typhoid fever in Bergen-Belsen.
Learning that his daughter Anne had written a diary, reading her testimony was an overwhelmingly emotional experience.
Eventually marrying Eva's mother, they moved to Switzerland. Together Eva's mother and Anne's father worked to answer all letters received after the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl.
Highly recommended. show less
Life as she knew it ended for Eva Schloss with the German invasion of Holland. After two years of hiding, her family was betrayed, and tragically she was captured on her 15th birthday.
Her brother and father were sent to Auschwitz and she and her mother were cattled in trains to Birkenau death camp.
Much like Thomas Buergenthal, author of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, Eva did not tell her tale until many years had passed.
Forty years after the Russian army liberated the death camps, she began to put memory to written word.
She chronicles the terror, the dehumanization, the rat, flea, bed bug, stench show more filled, cramped surroundings, the fear of illness least she would be sent to the ever smoking ovens, the heart breaking separation of her family and death of her father and brother.
Like Buergenthal and others, her life was spared time and again through a series of lucky events, kind people who helped and sacrificed and through sheer determination and will power.
Later, after she and her mother returned to Holland, they were visited by Otto Frank, a family friend who was imprisoned in Auschwitz with her father and brother.
Heartbroken, Otto learned that he lost his beloved wife Edith who died from exhaustion and starvation shortly before the Russians liberated the campus. His two daughters, Anne and Margot, both died from typhoid fever in Bergen-Belsen.
Learning that his daughter Anne had written a diary, reading her testimony was an overwhelmingly emotional experience.
Eventually marrying Eva's mother, they moved to Switzerland. Together Eva's mother and Anne's father worked to answer all letters received after the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl.
Highly recommended. show less
horror, hopelessness, survival, survivor-s-guilt, torture, concentration-camp, PTSD*****
How do you say you enjoyed a book of real horror? Because she survived alive and supported by other survivors. The nazi atrocities were real, the suffering, both then and remembered, is real. Never Forget.
Ann Richardson has just the right touch as narrator.
How do you say you enjoyed a book of real horror? Because she survived alive and supported by other survivors. The nazi atrocities were real, the suffering, both then and remembered, is real. Never Forget.
Ann Richardson has just the right touch as narrator.
This is the sequel, if that is possible, of Anne Frank's diary. This autobiography is from a Jewish girl who knew Anne Frank. She too, was sent to Auschwitz and went through the same life in the camp as Anne would have experienced. But she lived.
She wrote this many years later. When asked why she waited so long to write this, toward the end of the book, she relates that she wants the world to remember what they suffered. She wants people to know that those who would deny the holocaust happened are wrong. And that this story should never be repeated.
Worth the read.
She wrote this many years later. When asked why she waited so long to write this, toward the end of the book, she relates that she wants the world to remember what they suffered. She wants people to know that those who would deny the holocaust happened are wrong. And that this story should never be repeated.
Worth the read.
Excellent book, but not for the faint-hearted.
life in a concentration camp and even more about what happened after. Deserted, homeless people looking for their families
"In March 1938 the Germans invaded Austria and young Eva Geiringer and her family became refugees. Like many Jews they fled to Amsterdam where they hid from the Nazis until they were betrayed and arrested in May 1944. Eva was fifteen years old when she was sent to Auschwitz - the same age as her friend Anne Frank. Together with her Mother she endured the daily degradation that robbed so many of their lives - including her Father and Brother. After the war her Mother married Otto Frank, the only surviving member of the Frank family. Only after forty years was Eva able to tell her story..." From the back cover of the book.
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Eva Schloss lectures widely in the United States, Europe, and Australia about the Holocaust and its consequences. Her story is also told through the popular play And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, written by James Still, at performances of which she often holds question-and-answer sessions.
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- Canonical title*
- L'histoire d'Eva
- Original title
- Eva's story. A survivor's tale by the step-sister of Anne Frank
- Alternate titles
- After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank; Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank; Eva's Story: A Survivor's Unforgettable Journey by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
- Original publication date
- 1988 (1e édition originale anglaise, Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berkshire) (1e édition originale anglaise, Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berkshire); 2001 (1e édition originale yiddish traduite de l'anglais ∙ Yad Vashem) (1e édition originale yiddish traduite de l'anglais ∙ Yad Vashem); 2009-10-08 (1e traduction et édition française ∙ Documents ∙ Le Cherche-Midi) (1e traduction et édition française ∙ Documents ∙ Le Cherche-Midi)
- People/Characters*
- Eva Schloss; Anne Frank
- Important places*
- Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Pologne; Amsterdam, Pays-Bas; London, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni; Bruxelles, Belgique
- Important events*
- Holocauste
- Dedication*
- A ma mère bien-aimée Fritzi Frank (1905-1998) dont l'amour, la force et l'exemple m'ont redonné la confiance nécessaire pour mener une vie épanouie.
Et... (show all) aussi à mes filles, Caroline, Jacky, Sylvia,
à mon père, Erich, et
à mon frère, Heinz
qu'elles n'ont jamais connu.
Dans l'espoir que ce livre les rapprochera. - First words*
- Avertissement de l'auteur
Ceci est une histoire vraie. Comme elle est dite de mémoire, certains détails secondaires peuvent ne pas être parfaiteme... (show all)nt fidèles !
Dans chaque ghetto, dans chaque trains de déportés, dans chaque camps de travail forcé et jusque dans les camps de la mort, la volonté de résistance était forte et prit de multiples formes ; se battre avec les rares ar... (show all)mes disponibles, se battre avec des bâtons et des couteaux, des gestes de défi et de protestation individuels, le courage de se procurer à manger en dépit de la menace de la mort, la noblesse de ne pas accorder aux Allemands le plaisir de contempler la panique et le désespoir. [...]
Préface
(Eva Schloss, Londres, 1986)
La gestation de ce livre a commencé il y a environ trois ans. [...]
Première partie
De Vienne à Amsterdam
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Réfugiés
Des années après l'horreur, je faisais un cauchemar récurrent... Je marche dans une rue ensol... (show all)eillée qui devient brusquement lugubre. [...] - Last words*
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Ainsi, à partir de la tragédie dans nos deux vies, nous avons trouvé ensemble un nouveau bonheur.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Remerciements
[...]
Enfin, à Fritzi Franck, tout mon amour et mes plus sincères remerciements pour les notes abondantes et les souvenirs qu'elle m'a livrés sans réserve. - Original language*
- Anglais (Royaume-Uni) (Royaume-Uni)
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