tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737903099642089452.post5844869736564505611..comments2024-03-12T13:28:53.733+00:00Comments on The Escape Line: The Three Who Got Away - The Journey Part OneKeithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15204149912245253542noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2737903099642089452.post-82624619514234548402013-02-01T11:12:42.811+00:002013-02-01T11:12:42.811+00:00Eva Nathan Clarke was born in the Mauthausen conce...Eva Nathan Clarke was born in the Mauthausen concentration camp on April 29, 1945, the day that her mother, Anka Nathan Bergman, arrived as a prisoner on a train from a labor camp in Freiberg, near Dresden, Germany. Her father, Bernd Nathan, had been shot in Auschwitz on January 18, 1945, the same day that 60,000 prisoners were marched out of the camp and taken to camps in Germany and Austria. Eva now lives in Cambridge, England and works for the Holocaust Educational Trust. She tells her story to students in order to remember and commemorate all those who died, but also to teach the lessons of the Holocaust. Eva and her mother, Anka Bergman, who is now in her 90s, are the only members of their family that survived the Holocaust; 15 family members were killed in Auschwitz, including 3 of Eva’s grandparents, her father, uncles, aunts, and her 7 year old cousin, Peter. In her talks to students, Eva says that there are two reasons why she and her mother survived – apart from her mother’s inherent toughness. “The first is that on the 28th April 1945 the Germans blew up the gas chamber at Mauthausen – this they were doing everywhere to try to conceal the evidence. My birthday was the 29th. The second reason is that three days after my birth the American Army liberated the camp.” (Actually, Mauthausen was liberated on May 5, 1945, which was 6 days after Eva was born.)Glad that our three escapees did not end up at this concentration camp and we eagerly await the next part of their journey in the well-documented and fascinating posts by Keith.<br />‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’<br />Anne Frank<br />Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13304115337328075135noreply@blogger.com