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The Promise (2006)

After Auschwitz (2013)

{en} Eva Schloss. Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale (New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988).

Abstract

"Many know the tragic story of Anne Frank, the teen whose life ended at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. But most people don’t know about Eva Schloss, Anne’s playmate and stepsister. Though Eva, like Anne, was taken to Auschwitz at the age of 15, her story did not end there. / This incredible 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."--Publisher description.

About the author

• wikipedia.en -- wikipedia.it

• See Eva Schloss / Eva Geiringer (F / Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, 1929), Holocaust survivor.

• Stepsister of Anne Frank

• KEYWORDS : <Austria> <Refugees> <Belgium> <Netherlands> <Hidden Children> <Auschwitz> <Liberation of Auschwitz>

• MEMOIRS : Eva's Story (1988) -- The Promise (2006) -- After Auschwitz (2013)

Eva Geiringer was born May 11, 1929 in Vienna to a Jewish family. Shortly after the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, her family emigrated to Belgium and finally to the Netherlands. She lived in the same apartment block in Amsterdam as Anne Frank, and the girls, only a month apart in age, were sometimes playmates from ages 11 to 13. In 1942, both girls went into hiding to avoid the Nazi effort to capture the Jews of Amsterdam. In May 1944, Schloss's family was captured by the Nazis after being betrayed by a double agent in the Dutch underground, and transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps. Her father and brother did not survive the ordeal, but she and her mother were barely alive when they were freed in 1945 by Soviet troops.

They returned to Amsterdam. In November 1953, Schloss's mother Elfriede (1905–1998) married Otto Frank. Eva continued her schooling and then studied art history at the University of Amsterdam. She then traveled to England to study photography for a year. While there, she met and married Zvi Schloss, a Jewish refugee from Germany whose father was imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, and who had been living in Palestine. The couple subsequently settled in England.