Un témoignage banal et tragique. A chaque fois, lors de ce type de lecture, le même bouleversement de l'inhumanité la plus brute et des merveilles du quotidien. ( )

Skildring av fruktansvärda upplevelser och stort lidande i Treblinkas koncentrationsläger. Eva Schloss' moder gifte sig med Anne Franks fader efter hemkomsten till Holland efter krigsslutet. Skriven på en lättillgänglig prosa. ( )

horror, hopelessness, survival, survivor-s-guilt, torture, concentration-camp, PTSD*****
How do you say you enjoyed a book of real horror? Because she survived alive and supported by other survivors. The nazi atrocities were real, the suffering, both then and remembered, is real. Never Forget.
Ann Richardson has just the right touch as narrator. ( )

Excellent book, but not for the faint-hearted.

This is one of those books that everyone should read. It is not enjoyable obviously due to the subject matter, but it is so important that everyone knows what happened so as to prevent it happening again.

Eva fled to Amsterdam with her family when the Germans invaded Austria, living on the same estate as Anne Frank and her family. Although she knew Anne, I believe they did not know each other well. The story follows Eva and her mother as they go into hiding separately from her brother and father. It goes on to follow the betrayal of their hiding places which resulted in them being sent to Auschwitz when Eva was 15. Eva was fortunate in that, despite a couple of short periods, she was not separated from her mother. Eva was also lucky in some respects as she had a cousin who was working as a nurse in the camp. This saved her mother from the gas chamber and ultimately helped the pair of them survive (barely) until the liberation of the camp. The story does not, however, finish there, but follows the pair as they are transported from the camp, eventually finding their way back to their home in Amsterdam. Sadly, Eva's father and brother did not survive.

Whilst at Auschwitz, Eva and her mother realised that Otto Frank was also there. After they had returned to Amsterdam, Otto and Eva's mother became friends through sharing their experiences together. They eventually married, making Eva the posthumous step-sister of Anne Frank. ( )