Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank

Schloss, Eva; Kent, Evelyn Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0952371693 ISBN 13: 9780952371694

Publisher: Evelyn Kent, 1999

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

Review:

On Holocaust Day 2015, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Eva Schloss is interviewed on BBC World. Click the link below to hear her moving story. "A patently honest account of the struggle of a courageous and resourceful young woman to surivive in a nightmare world" -- Jewish Chronicle "High on the list of Holocaust reading" -- Jewish Telegraph "A tale worth telling ... it picks up where Anne Frank's diary ends" -- New York Daily News "Powerful, a heart-breaking and inspirational account of personal triumph" -- Publisher's Weekly

Synopsis:

Refugee in 1938, betrayed and arrested in 1944, Eva was 15 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz -- the same age as her friend Anne Frank -- only now, over 40 years later, has Eva felt able to tell her story...