Hanka & Eva Traub (FF / Austria, 1939), Holocaust survivors

Girls at the Weir Courtney children's home in Surrey: (left to right): Hedi Friedman, Zdenka Husserl, Mirjam Stern, Hanka Traub, Judith Singer, Tanya Muench, Ruth Kamaryth, Sylvia Grüner, Eva Traub; and (back row): Milly Schwarz and Magda Liberman

Hanka Traub (F / Austria, 1939), Holocaust survivor

Eva Traub (F / Austria, 1939), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Austria> <Auschwitz> <Mengele Twins> <Liberation of Auschwitz> -- <Belgicka Children> <England>

Biography

Hanka & Eva Traub were twins, born in 1939 in Vienna, Austria.

Their parents died in the Holocaust. In 1944 they were deported to Auschwitz, where they were selected for medical experiments (see Mengele Twins). On 27 January 1945, they were liberated by Soviet forces.

They were moved to an orphanage in Czechoslovakia. In March 1946 they went to England as part of the Belgicka Children and were taken to Weir Courtney house in Lingfield. Hanka became a nursery teacher in a Hasidic Jewish school in London and Eva worked as a cook at the same school.

Sources

• USHMM Database -- NO
• 45aid.org (Hanka & Eva Traub, 1939) -- YES