After Auschwitz, Eva Schloss
After Auschwitz, Eva Schloss
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After Auschwitz
A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

Author: Eva Schloss

Narrator: Anne Dover

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/31/2018

Synopsis

A story of heartbreak and survival by the step-sister of Anne Frank.

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.

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About Eva Schloss

Eva Schloss is in her mid-eighties and lives in North London. After the war she became a professional photographer (using the Leica camera Otto Frank had given her) and later opened an antiques shop in Edgware, which she ran for decades. She co-founded The Anne Frank Trust to perpetuate Anne and her step-father Otto's legacy. She was awarded an MBE in this year's New Years Honours for her work in schools, educating children on the perils of intolerance.Karen Bartlett is a writer and journalist based in London. She has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, the Guardian and WIRED from Africa, India and the U.S, and has presented and produced for BBC radio. She was the youngest director of democratic reform and human rights campaign group Charter88, and began her career in the UK and South Africa.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria

A Course in Miracles I always experience a sense of greatness and smallness, whenever I read about Auschwitz survivors. Greatness, cos they were all ordinary people -- anonimous human beings like most of us, who found some hidden powers which granted them life, while 6 million others like them, perish......more

Goodreads review by Maria

O Poder Infinito da Esperança 6 milhões de judeus pereceram no Holocausto! Eva Schloss sobreviveu: [URL not allowed] Na entrevista que acabaram de ver, Eva Schloss atribui a sua sobrevivência a um misto de esperança e milagres. Porém, pergunto-me se não terá sido a esperança -- a s......more

Goodreads review by Maria

The Infinite Power of Hope 6 millions of jews perished in the Holocaust! Eva Schloss survived! How did she do it? Hope? Luck? Miracles?... She said in an interview that if it wasn't for hope, she wouldn't be there sitting and talking to her interviewer. Not just hope -- she adds -- cos she was also blesse......more

Goodreads review by Hilary

So hard to rate this book, a compelling account of a young girl who lived in the same street as Anne Frank and met her briefly before the war. At the age of 15, Eva was arrested and with her family sent to a concentration camp. The conditions were horrendous and by some amazing luck(view spoiler)[ her mother not o (hide spoiler)]......more

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