Eva Schloss Boeken

Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her. When Auschwitz was liberated, Eva and Fritzi began the long journey home. They searched desperately for Eva's father and brother, from whom they had been separated. The news came some months later. Tragically, both men had been killed. Before the war, in Amsterdam, Eva had become friendly with a young girl called Anne Frank. Though their fates were very different, Eva's life was set to be entwined with her friend's for ever more, after her mother Fritzi married Anne's father Otto Frank in 1953. This is a searingly honest account of how an ordinary person survived the Holocaust. Eva's memories and descriptions are heartbreakingly clear, her account brings the horror as close as it can possibly be. But this is also an exploration of what happened next, of Eva's struggle to live with herself after the war and to continue the work of her step-father Otto, ensuring that the legacy of Anne Frank is never forgotten.

Traces the life of the Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in an attic in Amsterdam during World War II

Eva was 15 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. After the war her mother married Otto Frank, the only surviving member of the Frank family. This is her story.

Am 11. Mai 1944, ihrem 15. Geburtstag, wurde das jüdische Mädchen Eva verhaftet und in das Konzentrationslager Auschwitz verschleppt. Das war das Ende ihrer Kindheit. Es grenzt an ein Wunder, dass Eva den Holocaust überlebt hat. Ihrer Freundin Anne Frank, die sie in Amsterdam kennen gelernt hatte, widerfuhr ein ganz anderes Schicksal. Auch der Vater und der Bruder von Eva wurden ermordet. Eva Schloss erzählt eindringlich und erschütternd, wie ihr Leben einer behüteten Kindheit im Strudel der brutalen Verfolgung durch die Nationalsozialisten zerstört wurde. Das Besondere an diesem Buch ist: Der Leser nimmt zwar starken emotionalen Anteil, geht aber gestärkt und zuversichtlich durch die Schilderung wieder hervor. Evas Mutter und Annes Vater begegneten sich nach dem Krieg wieder in Amsterdam, fanden zueinander und heirateten. Eva Schloss ist Mitbegründerin des Anne Frank Trusts in London und trotz ihres hohen Alters noch immer weltweit als Zeitzeugin unterwegs.