Language:
English
Pages:
6 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1971
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
;
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust survivors.
;
Pregnancy.
;
Women authors.
;
World War, 1939-1945.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Letter written by Eva Clarke's mother to her daughter describing her life following her deportation in 1941.
Abstract:
Eva Clarke's mother lived in Prague. Her husband was sent to Theresienstadt on November 28, 1941; she was sent a few weeks later. In September 1943 she became pregnant. In December, her parents were sent to the East and never returned. In February 1944, her child, a boy called Dan, was born, but he died after two month of pneumonia. In 1944, they received the news that the Allied Forces were moving across France. In July 1944, she became again pregnant. Her husband was sent away on September 28, she followed on October 1. She never saw her husband again, he was shot during the evacuation of Auschwitz on January 18, 1945. After a short stop in Dresden, she was also sent to Auschwitz. Her parents, sisters and Peter ended in the gas chamber. She and her unborn baby only survived because there were not enough workers, so she was used for slave labor. Dr. Mengele selected her with the words “This time a very good quality”. Shortly afterwards, she was again sent away in a freight train, this time to Freiberg/Saxony, where she manufactured V-1s. When it became obvious in January 1945 that she was pregnant, it was too late to send her back to Auschwitz, so she went to Mauthausen and was brought there with dying women to a camp hospital. During this trip she got her baby. The Americans were not far away, so the Germans were more frightened than she was and the gas chamber of Mauthasen had been blown up only one day before. She and her baby, a girl who first was mistakenly described as a boy, survived the Shoah. She left Czechoslovakia together with her new husband in 1948 and settled in Great Britain.
Note:
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