One family's experience of the Holocaust

Part of our evening Speaker Programme, offering interviews and talks of broad interest for students, parents and the wider community.

Speaker: Eva Clarke

The talk: One family's experience of the Holocaust

Date: Wednesday 28 January 7.30pm

Venue: The Hall, Hills Road Sixth Form College

This talk takes place the day after Holocaust Memorial Day and Eva will give a talk about her mother’s experience of the Holocaust.

Eva was born in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, on 29 April 1945 and she and her mother were almost the only survivors of their family, 15 members of which were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Eva’s birth was remarkably fortunate, as on arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau in October 1944, Eva’s mother, Anka’s pregnancy was not visible. She was therefore sent to work in an armaments factory in Germany, where she remained for six months. By the spring of 1945, the Germans were retreating and evacuating slave labour camps. Anka and her fellow prisoners were forced onto a train which eventually arrived at Mauthausen concentration camp. The shock sent Anka into labour and Eva was born. If the camp’s gas chambers hadn’t been blown up on 28 April 1945 and the Americans hadn’t liberated Mauthausen just days after Eva’s birth, neither mother nor child would have survived.

Eva will share her testimony in a talk lasting approximately 1 hour, after which there will be an opportunity for questions from the audience.

This event is free of charge; however tickets must be booked in advance (the booking deadline is 6 pm on Tuesday 27 January).