Case study - Eva Clarke
Eva Clarke is a HolocaustThe killing of 6 million Jews and other minorities by the Nazis during World War Two. survivor who came to live in Cardiff, south Wales until she was 18 years of age.
Eva’s parents had been sent to a concentration campA place, often with inadequate facilities, where people are imprisoned deliberately, and forced into labour or sent for mass execution. in Auschwitz, where her father was shot dead. Her mother, Anka Bergman, who was pregnant with Eva at the time, was saved and sent on a 17-day train journey to another concentration camp with no food and very little water.
Soon after the train journey, Anka gave birth to Eva at the concentration camp at Mauthausen. Anka weighed a mere 32 kg by this time, and Eva weighed just 1.5 kg at birth.
In 2017, Eva Clarke visited school children in Wales to talk about these experiences.
Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day is a national day which is observed every year on 27 January. It is a time for people to remember those who suffered and lost their lives during the Holocaust.
Eva Clarke has spoken in the past at the Holocaust Memorial Day service held at Cardiff City Hall, where over 500 attendees listened to her story.
When the Holocaust Educational Trust goes into schools, what we try to do is not only to remember and commemorate all those people who died, but to try to learn the lessons of the Holocaust.
