Eyewitness Talk: Eva Schloss

On 27 January 1945, 15-year-old Eva Geiringer and her mother Elfriede were among the around 7,000 people who witnessed the liberation of the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps by the Soviet Army.
Eight and a half months earlier, the Geiringer family of four - originally from Vienna and living in hiding in Amsterdam - had been betrayed and deported to Auschwitz.
In an online conversation between London and Berlin with Aubrey Pomerance, head of the museum’s archive, Eva Schloss talks about her childhood and youth, life in hiding, her months in the hell of Birkenau, liberation day of the Auschwitz concentration camp and life afterwards.
The conversation with Eva Schloss was conducted by Aubrey Pomerance, head of the museum’s archive of the Jewish Museum Berlin on 21 January 2021, as part of the JMB event series “Eyewitness Talks.“
With the support of Berliner Sparkasse
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