Against All Odds: Born in Mauthausen with Eva Clarke

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  • @uctv
    @uctv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @MinaMcKay
    @MinaMcKay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    It just is incredible how a 3lb baby born to a starving mother managed to survive. I'm so glad she did.

    • @admontblanc
      @admontblanc ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Even more incredible is that they built a maternity on a death camp, now that's a true miracle.

  • @Jack-ye6fm
    @Jack-ye6fm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    To think her mum was not just able to survive but grow a healthy baby whilst undergoing such immense stress, starvation, lack of hygiene etc is amazing. Just goes to show the miracle of the human body and spirit. Such a horrific story for her family you couldn't imagine anything worse if you tried. I can't believe this took place just eighty years ago and at the hands of other human beings.

    • @brendamaloney
      @brendamaloney ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you for motivating us to be better people!

    • @donnae2013
      @donnae2013 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not too bright tho’ … subject the baby to that.

    • @tinabrenner3562
      @tinabrenner3562 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Humans have done that for thousands of years or do u see supermarkets and hospitals in our past

  • @debbie3447
    @debbie3447 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1387

    Eva Clark is the best presenter I have ever seen. She's very pleasant, she speaks to you as if your in her living room, she gets the audience involved, and she's very honest. Love her.

    • @tenajyebba
      @tenajyebba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      She is a practiced performer,

    • @LadyhawksLairDotCom
      @LadyhawksLairDotCom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      She's classy, elegant, self-possessed. She turned out like her description of her mother.

    • @LadyhawksLairDotCom
      @LadyhawksLairDotCom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @BrinnaBochinara SBragia TROIA Why? Do you think Janet Abbey is denying the holocaust? I'm not sure that's clear from her reply, but I don't wanna engage a possible holocaust denier. One of my closest friends is Jewish and I don't trust myself to respond.

    • @nickskom7491
      @nickskom7491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Amiée Dorian bo

    • @sheilaboston7051
      @sheilaboston7051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@LadyhawksLairDotCom Janet is possibly trying to say that because Eva has given this presentation so many times she feels comfortable with it? Regardless, I agree with you and Debbie - Eva is one amazing woman and I was absolutely riveted by this.

  • @janresendez7991
    @janresendez7991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    I’m glad that her story is being recorded. Because before too long all those who lived through the Holocaust and lost family members won’t be here anymore. We need to keep passing these stories around so people learn from the past. Thank you for your story

    • @junesorenson279
      @junesorenson279 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I totally agree with you, because I heard somewhere that there is someone saying that it didn't happen . . . WELL IT DID HAPPEN
      I SAVED AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE IT WITH MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS??? But I don't know if I would be needing approval from the author???

    • @margaretr5701
      @margaretr5701 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@junesorenson279 The share feature is available.

    • @scores718
      @scores718 ปีที่แล้ว

      I did pass it to my d.i.l.
      And I promised myself I'd never talk about my back labor with no epidural ever again.

  • @beckyelliott2871
    @beckyelliott2871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    My dad was with the 11th Army that liberated Mauthausen Prison Camp. I am SO proud that he was part of those that set so many survivors free. Glad that you were one of those
    so that you could give is such a stirring first-hand account of what you and your family lived through. God blest your mother with the strength of her spirit.

  • @irenec2863
    @irenec2863 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    The farmer who gave her mother a glass of milk...Eva said her mother said that probably saved her life. How powerful one simple gesture of humanity can be. 💕

    • @rescuepetsrule6842
      @rescuepetsrule6842 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Every time I leave the house, I try to do or say something helpful or encouraging to at least one person. It's not hard to see which are stressed and sad, and the expressions on their faces is often surprise that someone is actually just being nice to them. We should all be farmers giving glasses of hope to the people that are being eaten alive by life nowadays. One day we will all need that Milk...

    • @irenec2863
      @irenec2863 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rescuepetsrule6842 Well said...thank you.

    • @rescuepetsrule6842
      @rescuepetsrule6842 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@irenec2863 You are so welcome. I have to DO something, even on a tiny scale, after listening to how rotten people can be.

    • @sherglovier3393
      @sherglovier3393 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I believe God kept her alive just so she could offer this incredible witness to future generations. Bless her.

    • @rescuepetsrule6842
      @rescuepetsrule6842 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sherglovier3393 Many survivors fought to live for just that reason.

  • @marcificht4013
    @marcificht4013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    I can't understand why there are so few views of this video. This woman is amazing and is relaying a family history that we all need to hear. I was unable to stop watching from the minute she started talking...she IS a miracle.

    • @MR-lq7ss
      @MR-lq7ss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Because, people don't want sad of unhappy videos. What they don't accept, however, is that by choosing to ignore this history, they are encouraging it to happen again. Even "doing nothing" is a choice, and not always with a good outcome.

    • @bobbiejones9266
      @bobbiejones9266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We must all watch and listen closely and never allow such a horrific thing to ever happen again anywhere in the world!!

    • @mysticcity312
      @mysticcity312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How old is she?? I mean she was born weighing 3 pounds and probably without any mother milk for a long time.

    • @whowasisaydavidovichberglo621
      @whowasisaydavidovichberglo621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe because our comments are getting deleted.

    • @whowasisaydavidovichberglo621
      @whowasisaydavidovichberglo621 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      sweJ yaS eht tsuacoloH si a complete xaoH aarrcchhiivvee ddoott oorrgg

  • @laurenloveslv655
    @laurenloveslv655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +732

    Incredible story, her Mother was a very courageous woman. I have visited Mauthausen, Terezin and Dachau. As painful as it is to visit these places, it is our duty to do so as a reminder to what these poor people endured.

    • @eleanorwilsey8870
      @eleanorwilsey8870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      These people will be you and I any day

    • @VisionwithMistyBrowning
      @VisionwithMistyBrowning 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      By visiting these places, I would think one would be strengthened to tell the stories generation to generation. Keep these stories alive.

    • @beckyelliott2871
      @beckyelliott2871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      My dad was one pf the American soldiers that freed those prisoners in Mauthausen Prison Camp. Dad never talked about that experience. I only learned about that in his obituary. I recently saw a war documentary about that camp and how horrendous that event was for both soldiers and prisoners alike.

    • @julz3tt3
      @julz3tt3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Shes a very talented confident and strong woman 💜 god bless her 💗💕😁

    • @barbaramattingly9449
      @barbaramattingly9449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What a beautiful, intelligent, courageous woman.

  • @sarahdingwall3024
    @sarahdingwall3024 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    My third child was born prematurely and weighed 4 pounds. He seemed so tiny and helpless, but he received excellent care in the hospital and is fine now. I cannot even begin to imagine giving birth to a 3 pound baby on a cart in a concentration camp with (very) limited medical help. The fact that the baby survived, and eventually thrived, is such a testament to the bravery of her mother. It is amazing what love can do in desparate circumstances.

  • @ashleydavis3207
    @ashleydavis3207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +406

    I love this story and how you told it. My grandfather was in the 11th Armored Division that liberated Mauthausen and I love hearing stories from the people whom he saved. It gives me more of an idea of how the liberation happened and how everyone felt.

    • @houviebsh
      @houviebsh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      My father was there too with the 11th armored division

    • @medinatabor6492
      @medinatabor6492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      My father-in-law was there also...

    • @claudiamandini
      @claudiamandini 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      My Italian grand father Wao Onésimo of them!!! He Wao a formar Marine Commander in Chief, and bad to surrender against his len Country when Mussolini alied with Hitler. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. They say Circumstances in life are inheritable. I live under the Dictatorship of Nicolás Madurai, down in Venezuela. I am able to keep on living here maintaining a good living standard, but this dictator here, Kim YoUn in Korea, etcetera, are proof that evil is present among the former society of the world and that it is accepted. Let’s pray for future generations, not to have to endure things like these! Thanks over and over and over!!!

    • @6h471
      @6h471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      My dad was there too, 11th armored.

    • @mrlaw711
      @mrlaw711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Part of the 3rd Army. Quite a story you must have to share, and how wonderful for the people who were alive at the camp in early May of 1945.

  • @marleylab51
    @marleylab51 3 ปีที่แล้ว +664

    I am so amazed at how well she spoke about this most horrific event in man's history . I was so transfixed on every word and my heart broke at every word. Her mother was so strong and very determined to survive. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

    • @LK-bz9sk
      @LK-bz9sk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Well said.

    • @betsygray9505
      @betsygray9505 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Wonderful speaker. She is a voice for those who have no voice. She tells a story so well which captures your attention the whole way through. She did learn English very well!!

    • @tashvelez7286
      @tashvelez7286 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      My exact thoughts and feelings. What a beautiful graceful woman. God bless Her and her family.

    • @songsandverses
      @songsandverses 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The thing that got to me is the fact that she said that the person writing the letter which was sent out written bread was already dead before it even got out.

    • @Kurikuriavid
      @Kurikuriavid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ⁰p⁰

  • @bilgyno1
    @bilgyno1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +761

    How there are 210 people that give this video a thumbs down is beyond my comprehension. Thank you for sharing your amazing life story of survival!

    • @viincanity
      @viincanity 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      believe it or not, there are those that question whether the holocaust ever took place... (quite a lot actually/unfortunately)

    • @PK-yc7en
      @PK-yc7en 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Well then you obviously did not notice one of the main lessons of her narrative.

    • @jayapillai6466
      @jayapillai6466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      It has now become 316 thumbs down.... Unbelievable

    • @viincanity
      @viincanity 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@jayapillai6466 if only that was the absolute number...

    • @Laugh_73
      @Laugh_73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Perhaps just a reaction to the Holocaust in general? Idk…

  • @tori9557
    @tori9557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +551

    Her mother was a strong woman. Unbelievably strong. I wish I could have heard her speak.

    • @Lauren-vd4qe
      @Lauren-vd4qe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      theres video on yt of her mother speaking

    • @medinatabor6492
      @medinatabor6492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Lauren-vd4qe Do you know what the YT title is? Thank you...

    • @Lauren-vd4qe
      @Lauren-vd4qe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@medinatabor6492 no i dont sorry

    • @zippetydodahday
      @zippetydodahday 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She actually does, thru her beautiful and accomplished daughter.
      “Not a joke”! 🤦🏼‍♀️

  • @lsrose
    @lsrose ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I’m a little late to the party but I have never heard a more eloquent speaker in my life. And one who speaks of such a horrible time in the history of the world I such a manner that it really breaks your heart to hear what her mother and her family went thru. God bless Eva Clark.

  • @phunkboxx
    @phunkboxx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +950

    She is so elegant and composed. Respect.

    • @julz3tt3
      @julz3tt3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I could listen to her for hours. Her story is amazing and horrific yet she says it with such elequent retelling. Bless her and her point family. Shalom 🇮🇱🇮🇱God Bless 💗♥️her and those who persisted unnecessarily 😢

    • @kathymyers7279
      @kathymyers7279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What if she wasn’t? Is that what makes you respect her?

    • @billrobbins5874
      @billrobbins5874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      An amazing woman for sure. ❤️

    • @marciathehooligan3861
      @marciathehooligan3861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes. And she is a striking woman

    • @nathalienathalie1829
      @nathalienathalie1829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@kathymyers7279.She cares so deserves to respected for what she is doing. Not just for looks

  • @lilianedenoni5481
    @lilianedenoni5481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Both my parents lived through the Second World War. My mother was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1922 where she met my father after the war in her hometown. He had been a soldier in the Italian army .He was taken as a political prisoner for two years in a town in Germany, Salzgitter. To this day, I have kept his I.D. card : Arbeit mit Frei. Both lived to be very old; my father was 99 and a half when he passed in 2015 and my mother lived until she was 98 years old 2020.

    • @marenhillert1903
      @marenhillert1903 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I am so happy that your parents did survive. I hope they could enjoy their lives and come over bad memories and experiences during WW2.
      I was born near to Salzgitter/ about 20 km away/ and it makes me still sad and a numb feeling about what horrible things had happen through German people in that time. It also makes me angry and disappointed that only so few people in that time were acting actively against the Hitler / Nazi - Regime.
      I wish your parents didn't have nightmares at the end of their lives and I wish that you and your family/near friends will have a rich, healthy and fulfilling life.
      With love from Berlin,
      Maren

  • @sistermaria5587
    @sistermaria5587 4 ปีที่แล้ว +404

    Wow. What a story. And I just love the way this lady told her stoy

    • @Happyinmontana
      @Happyinmontana 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Her voice is soothing. She seems like a lovely lady.

    • @gianellab.4953
      @gianellab.4953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I was lucky enough to meet a WWII survivor in High School as well, and she was also an excellent speaker. She made her story so engaging and lively, despite its grim nature. And she also found a way to connect it to our present, talking about everyday troubles like how the girls in the camps wished they could wear a bra (as opposed to us not wanting any). I'm glad there is a recorded version of this lady's storytelling. There will never be a better way of learning about such tragic events as through the victims themselves.

    • @danaohhh239
      @danaohhh239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Getting ready for the next chapter!!

    • @peterstevenson2237
      @peterstevenson2237 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats because 90% of it is BS

    • @omemeemom4102
      @omemeemom4102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@peterstevenson2237 why do you say this?

  • @nedraleggett5436
    @nedraleggett5436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    This was was so special. Thank you. My mom and I attended a talk from a survivor many years ago.he was a young teen during his time in a camp.He said he lost all of hi family. I was a young woman then. I imagine he is gone now. Your stories are heart felt. This world now must hear these stories. Again.

  • @cherylmccarthy8160
    @cherylmccarthy8160 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Thankyou for sharing your mother’s life with us. I visited Mauthausen as a young Australian tourist in 1973, we all cried when we saw how absolutely dreadful this place was and hearing your story reminds us to learn from this and not let it ever happen again but as you said at the end of your talk, although done differently, it is still happening in places around the world unfortunately

    • @spoolsandbobbins
      @spoolsandbobbins 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Australia is one of them. Look a little deeper and you will see the evil lurking…

  • @lsammans5028
    @lsammans5028 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Wow. What a powerful story and she relayed it so well. She is so proud of her mother as she should be!

  • @mariebarnes416
    @mariebarnes416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Eva Clark and her sweet Mom are amazing. The younger generation need to hear these accounts of what happened. Thank you for sharing. God bless you Mrs. Clark.

  • @spongemonkeysooz
    @spongemonkeysooz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    She reminds me of my sister's mother in law. She was an elegant, kind lady who married an American rabbi working with the American government to help the refugees from the camps. She never wanted to talk about it, she hid the tattooed numbers on her arm... until she was interviewed for her Holocaust experiences and urged to write a book. She did... Lala's story. 💞 Love to all of you.

  • @ele2051
    @ele2051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Thankyou Eva!
    She totally had me engaged in her story from beginning to end. Brilliantly recounted.
    Who can ever fathom the horror, the evil mindset of the perpetrators & all done so systematically?
    So glad she & her mother survived and had a good life despite it all.

    • @Fefe559
      @Fefe559 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      But the perpetrators were NOT UNIQUE bystanders bullies & victims all participated, you would have too if that was your home at that time. Do not think they were any different than you. You are also a benign complacent witness to your culture, thats the thing about the holocaust, you act like those Nazi were unique? They were NOT. If you do not understand that you are doomed to repeat it. Wish people understood that - so then they could truly avoid a repeat. The way we have shut down free speech & attack conservatives with their disgust & contempt against anyone who does not think like them (they r thinking a little like nazi’s) that is how stuff begins. The minute people demonize that population but blind to their own shadows - they haven’t learnt a thing !

    • @vivians9392
      @vivians9392 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Fefe559 Sorry, but I feel contempt in your message tone. What makes you assume that ordinary people are all mindless idiots who only follow the crowd? Not true, as history has proven!

  • @deaconsmom2000
    @deaconsmom2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Your mother is absolutely amazing. I'm not sure I've ever heard a second hand account of anyone that courageous.

  • @danacarroll7201
    @danacarroll7201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Eva's story is riveting and touched the depths of my heart. I just finished the book, The Ravine, A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed. I work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and each Survivor's story still pulls at my heart and conscience and the inhumanity suffered.

  • @amandablevins6809
    @amandablevins6809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I’m so glad I was able to hear this story. I was so happy when she showed us the last picture.

  • @jeannerosen9024
    @jeannerosen9024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    What a beautiful woman. She was born in hell on Earth and healed by Love. What a gift that she tells her story to teach us this horrible truth.

  • @7artbound
    @7artbound 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    People like you are historic TREASURES. I'm so thankful you were able to give not only your family but every holocaust survivor a voice and testimony to the most horrific event in human history. Thank you!

    • @lindac6416
      @lindac6416 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m sharing under historical treasure perfect words thank you

    • @sloeberdoet
      @sloeberdoet ปีที่แล้ว

      There were a lot more horrific events in the past and still going on today. It is not because it isn't mediatized as much as the shoa that they aren't happening and they are not at all less horrific.

    • @americaneskielover
      @americaneskielover ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sloeberdoet More horrific than being gassed? More horrific than losing everything you own, your freedom, your entire family?! What is more horrific than genocide?

    • @sloeberdoet
      @sloeberdoet ปีที่แล้ว

      @@americaneskielover Read your history . There were far more genocides even later in history that were as atrocious as gassing . What about cutting arms and women's breasts and legs with machetes? What do you prefer?But hey that weren't jews so yes i guess the suffering of a jew is worth more than the suffering of other human beings.

    • @americaneskielover
      @americaneskielover ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sloeberdoet AS ATROCIOUS, not more!! Prefer? Starved to death, gassed, shot, tortured? What do you mean prefer? The few that survived had little or no family left! Genocide is genocide. smh She's not talking about history, she's talking about HER history. What SHE lived. A Jew suffering is THIS story !! She's not claiming she suffering is worth more, she's telling her story. What a thing to say, after all that these people suffered and lost. smh

  • @pamelabryant7390
    @pamelabryant7390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    I am speechless. The bravery of this woman and her mother the optimism of her mother should envelop all of us. We’re in the middle of a pandemic. I’m sitting right now in Maryland United States. I’ve basically been in lockdown since March of last year. But my story is only made me more strong because of stories like this woman’s. Please be safe everyone and God bless

    • @ashokanvilvanathan3431
      @ashokanvilvanathan3431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This horror shouldn't happen to any human. She survived but the threat and hated still on. All over the world to Jews.
      Reason???

    • @libbyamsterdam7796
      @libbyamsterdam7796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ashokanvilvanathan3431 ¹

    • @lourdesprudencio5647
      @lourdesprudencio5647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I hope you are doing ok.... I'll pray for you 🙏

    • @JAM661
      @JAM661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ashokanvilvanathan3431 Unfortunately people learn to hate because of lies and fears. For years the excuse not to let slave free in the USA would be that they would kill all the White's. Well most people who where supporting slavery knew that was not true and it had to do with power, control and greed. But the uneducated could be easily fooled. When you have a Representative from FL even today talking about Jewish space lasers starting fires in CA and Western states just shows how important education is and to stop using religion as a way the separate people. Every ism is about lumping a group of people together and then saying everyone in that group is the same. It is like saying Black people murder people. Well some do and so do White's. But a racist will just make a few people who do something they may not agree with and then lump everyone in that group as the same even if that group has millions of people and range considerably depending on how they were raised, where they live, ect. We need to understand we are all humans who share most things but at the same time we are all different and each have something different to add.

    • @helenenewman3651
      @helenenewman3651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same to you.

  • @enigmaren
    @enigmaren 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    She is an incredible human and an even more incredible story teller. We cannot forget the horrors of the Holocaust. The survivors have a strength and candidness that absolutely astounds me.

  • @aj96614
    @aj96614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    She and her mother are /were so lovely.
    Rest In Peace to all who endured and suffered through those horrendous atrocities.

  • @rebeccamouse9294
    @rebeccamouse9294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Her mother was an amazing person. What strength. I am amazed that she communicated so openly with her daughter about such horrific experiences.

    • @ymagdelana216
      @ymagdelana216 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's an Aries woman ❤

  • @Mayjse
    @Mayjse ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Eva means life. Her mother gave her the most wonderful name one could think of.

  • @yvonnepetty3400
    @yvonnepetty3400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Very well done. I have just sent it to my Jewish friend, who lost most of her family. I was born & brought up in Wales, my husband went to Cardiff University. I trained as a nurse. We came to live in South Africa 45yrs ago. Thank you so much for sharing your story.💝 .

  • @suemargaret9032
    @suemargaret9032 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I found this video by chance, but I’m so glad that I did! Eva is a wonderful orator, capturing my attention from the very first moment! Talking about her Mothers experience, brings the reality home for everyone. How she survived, I’ve really no idea, pure strength of character and love for her baby, I imagine!! I feel really privileged to have seen this video!

  • @NatureNymph46
    @NatureNymph46 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    What an incredible speaker. I followed every word she spoke with bated breath, taking everything to heart, and allowing her story the weight and emotion it truly deserves. I shed tears each time her voice cracked and smiled when she shared good news. By the end, I felt like I knew her family; especially her dear mother.
    It's rare for someone to move someone else with mere words. Eva Clark has the gift.

  • @garyjamieson4672
    @garyjamieson4672 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I remember listening to her talk at my school. The room was full of 13-16 year olds who were normally quite disruptive but you could literally hear a pin drop as she spoke. She tells the story so well and I enjoyed hearing it again 20 years later.

  • @tobava
    @tobava 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Oh my god. I literally clapped when she stopped speaking. What a beautiful captivating lady she is! And talk about against all odds! All that time they could have been killed, and they survived. What an absolutely strong lady her mother must have been.. No words to describe the infernal hell they went through or the indomitable will that burned in their hearts to live.

  • @Timzart7
    @Timzart7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Spellbinding and inspiring story of her mother's perseverance, told by one of the best speakers I've ever heard, on any topic.

  • @jeannemiller4799
    @jeannemiller4799 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Loved her story telling style- I was hanging on every word she spoke- completely captivated- much respect

  • @janethagen3385
    @janethagen3385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    It’s amazing to me that her mother was so willing to share her memories of the camps & her experience.

  • @JAM661
    @JAM661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Unbelievable story. All I can think of was what a amazing and strong women her Mother really was to go though all that and then having a baby under unbelievable odds and make though for herself and her child. There is so much to learn when we listen ( instead judge ) to other sorrows and joys.

  • @duke630
    @duke630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Wow, what an incredible story of survival, resilience, and triumph over evil. I will never forget Eva or her presentation. Thank you!

  • @genevielucious4945
    @genevielucious4945 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Very teary at the end. Incredible story of her mothers survival and so well told.

  • @Stacy_Sunshine
    @Stacy_Sunshine 6 ปีที่แล้ว +279

    Thank you for sharing your powerful story! We must never forget!

    • @lourdesprudencio5647
      @lourdesprudencio5647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I agree....

    • @wendyb6446
      @wendyb6446 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We must not, and yet there was news coverage of some young teenagers on a trip to Auschwitz, posing for pics on the railroad tracks! Breaks my heart.

    • @kNINER-tj6mq
      @kNINER-tj6mq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wendyb6446 they also asked teens in GERMANY about the holocaust and quite a few had no idea what they were talking about.

    • @Afro3461
      @Afro3461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Unfortunately, contrary to all the evidence that exists, there are a growing number of revisionists and deniers who are determined to destroy historical facts because they are inconvenient truths that destroy and expose their owners own evil and twisted anti-Semitic mindsets!

  • @joysmith1213
    @joysmith1213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I was so transfixed during this entire talk. Amazing your mother and you survived at all. That's why the story is spoken and carried forward. Surviving is the first reason and second is for those who didn't. Pray God will give us all eternal peace one day, which is only in heaven.

  • @karenkueter8975
    @karenkueter8975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    This is a very moving account of such a grim horrible time. Very articulate, she communicates well a story that could serve as a warning. This could happen again should we not heed the signs. Thank you for telling your story. Mankind needs to need to hear it.

    • @helenenewman3651
      @helenenewman3651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is happening again.

    • @Fefe559
      @Fefe559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly..it worries me, democrats attacking republicans, sad, the country that helped liberate her mother & they turn on each other.

  • @chaoticyank5772
    @chaoticyank5772 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I am here quite a while after this was first posted, but it is such a staunch reminder of what terrible things human beings can do to each other. It is also a reminder of the incredible stories that are slowly fading with the loss of our world's greatest generation. Thank you for sharing such a painful, yet wonderful story from WWII. These are the stories that need to endure and live on for future generations. History should never be forgotten.

  • @yvonnemccullaghward361
    @yvonnemccullaghward361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Thank you for your articulate and moving telling of this terrible time. We often wonder how we would cope in that time. “Don’t let the bastards get you down” Such bravery. It makes it real and personal.

  • @teresamarques1824
    @teresamarques1824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    How can anyone give this video a thumbs down? What an amazing survival story, what an amazing family story. Thank you for sharing your story. Never forgotten

    • @sheilaboston7051
      @sheilaboston7051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If you've read some of the comments, you will see why. Some very disgruntled people in this world - I wonder how they would have survived in Eva's mother's place.

    • @dolorescheatom1663
      @dolorescheatom1663 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sheilaboston7051 It's this kind of insensitive comment and disregard to other peoples feelings that allow you to think that others are disgruntled. What happened during WW2 was an atrocity but it wasn't the first and unfortunately won't be the last. People will find the will to survive. The story of the Jews is no better or no worse than many others. There are many different nations still suffering from Genocide, racism still going on and yet few Jews speak speak on or up for them. Many people have become turned off by always having to hear the "story of the Jews" as if their story is the end all to be all. There are many others and some have stories that are just as bad if not worse but we are not hearing and publicizing their story.

  • @sandramears3934
    @sandramears3934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Amazing story - beautifully told. We must never forget how easy it is for a supposed civilised country to take the wrong path and be capable of such atrocities. My regards from a fellow Cardiffian.

    • @marilynholmes8229
      @marilynholmes8229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wales is being destroyed by ‘the little man on the podium.’ We are being manipulated and controlled without compassion or human kindness.

  • @sisterfay
    @sisterfay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What an eloquent speaker and beautiful lady! Thank you for sharing your story.

  • @XxpauldadudexX
    @XxpauldadudexX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Thank goodness Eva's mother was a survivor. She definitely got through coz of her youth and vitality, luck, but more than anything stoicism and determination. So amazing she was pregnant, carried her baby full term, and both survived in such horrific circumstances.
    What a lady Eva's mother was, wow!

  • @eileenreed1382
    @eileenreed1382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Thank you so much for sharing this story, I have never listened so intently to every word before. So glad that you and your mother survived but heart broken for all the millions of people that didn’t. We must never forget them.❤️

  • @ulrikeotzen1761
    @ulrikeotzen1761 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    To hear and see with you own ears and eyes is so important.
    Thank you for your willingness to present your personal story.
    Every school student in Germany visits a former Konzentration camp at least once during his/her school years.
    Our son visited Neuengamme in 8th grade and Dachau two weeks ago in 13th grade.

  • @heathermariesmith5267
    @heathermariesmith5267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thumbs down ????? How???? I am going to give humanity the benefit of the doubt and say that the 👎 is to all the suffering and pure evil that went on , and NOT a 👎to this woman ‘s story and courageous mother who fought for life. I could listen to these stories all day and especially this woman with her elegance and grace. So I give it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @lporquai9048
      @lporquai9048 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      People are just strange.... Really strange the thumbs down are probably the ignorant racists, holocaust deniers

  • @deeann424
    @deeann424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    She is a wonderful speaker-presenter. I could listen to her all day.

  • @Lili-cd7cg
    @Lili-cd7cg ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was born during the Rwandan genocide where millions of people died. Thanks for telling your story

  • @kthomic
    @kthomic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am very touched by this. I live in Linz, near Mauthausen, and we go to the liberation ceremonies every year to commemorate and honour all the people and families who had to go through the hell of Holocaust.

  • @nataliejayne3699
    @nataliejayne3699 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you, Eva. I sat and watched and listened so intently and am so grateful for your telling of your story and your family's. Listening makes me realise how lucky I am to be here too, the granddaughter of a survivor.

  • @maryhickel1477
    @maryhickel1477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was a great memoir of all those people had to go through.This Lady has taken every ounce of her being to get this story out of the events that has taken place.For all those people,a good thank you for letting all young people hear of the true episode that took place.

  • @karencopley1921
    @karencopley1921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What an incredibly articulate speaker. Thank you for sharing these very personal memories and facts. x

  • @robertkennedy9618
    @robertkennedy9618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Very interesting and inspirational. What a lovely lady and what a terrible time and place in history she went through. It makes me feel good to know she is telling the world so hopefully we all never forget that he’ll. My mother was 17 and Hungarian back then and she told me of terrible things she experienced. I wouldn’t be here today if she wasn’t strong willed and determined.

    • @helenenewman3651
      @helenenewman3651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm so sorry she experienced that horror.

  • @quaver1239
    @quaver1239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Thank you for this. Deeply intelligent, beautifully articulate - and born in Mauthausen. Wow. One needs to think really hard about what her entire family went through. It could happen again.

  • @pegihaider813
    @pegihaider813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thank you for this most excellent presentation. You are one of the best speakers I have ever heard. Your mother was so strong! God bless you.

  • @Wahots79
    @Wahots79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This needs to be shown at every middle and high school

  • @youallthinkyouknow1314
    @youallthinkyouknow1314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I read her book and it was great. A lot of sorrow and pain. God bless her and her strong mother.

  • @adironimbus9763
    @adironimbus9763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is so amazing! I never thought that any babies would have been able to be born and how her mother was able to keep her.

  • @preparenowseekshelter7568
    @preparenowseekshelter7568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    ‘Stand up straight, be proud to be Jewish’ words to live by, REGARDLESS of color, creed, socioeconomic standing, religious affiliation, sexuality, or gender. Be proud and lead with love

    • @Happyinmontana
      @Happyinmontana 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Beautifully said 👏
      Lead with your heart ❤

    • @rorywagner3046
      @rorywagner3046 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    • @rorywagner3046
      @rorywagner3046 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank

    • @SciFiGirl007
      @SciFiGirl007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Love is not proud

    • @amyrivers9381
      @amyrivers9381 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This could be used in any age/time as so many people including myself, have low self esteem because of one of many reasons.

  • @carolepettit.5895
    @carolepettit.5895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I was captivated with Eva, I didn’t moved the entire time I watch her presentation.
    I am so happy she told her story.
    Even with the museum the talks like Evas and all the other... Sometimes I worry people will forget what happened and how all of it started.
    The last four years, I worried.

  • @angelathompson5431
    @angelathompson5431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Wow, such beauty in so much sadness I pray to god that he shines the light over you and your beautiful family for ever,!thank you for your mother’s story and elegantly told, thank you.

  • @shonamacintosh6932
    @shonamacintosh6932 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a wonderful articulate woman ,the stories are human tragedies that should never be be forgotten…… Thankyou .Love her .

  • @SailorIda3
    @SailorIda3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    oh dear, this lady gotta be so strong or able to detach herself compleatly to not cry. I am called coldhearted but dang I cried several times listening to her.

  • @cottoncandy4486
    @cottoncandy4486 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your parents are very beatifull.Your grandfather a hero.Thank you for your story, it made me cry so hard.

  • @SofiMendezMusic
    @SofiMendezMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dear Eva, thanks for sharing this story with us. I was captivated in every word, I felt I was in your living room listening to the story. Thanks!!

  • @vickikanowith3748
    @vickikanowith3748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Remarkable story of one family's journey and fate through unrelenting evil, as told by an exceptional and mesmerizing speaker!

  • @chesleecallum6392
    @chesleecallum6392 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    She explains so clear, personal, honest and right in the face. Gripping.

  • @elennadmrconner7043
    @elennadmrconner7043 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Eva Clark is a miracle. Her & her mother's story is so sad & amazing.

  • @elainemilner2241
    @elainemilner2241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Her courage shines like an everlasting star in the darkest night of the soul. Blessings abundant. Elaine Milner Hailsham UK

  • @hector4tilly
    @hector4tilly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I come fromJersey in the Channel Islands and my maternal grandfather left to join the army fighting in Burma 6 months before the occupation. Luckily my grandmother left and went to London for the duration of WW2 as any resident with a family member in the armed forces were automatically sent to Europe and a concentration camp upon the Germans occupying the Channel Islands. This is one of the most moving documentaries I have seen. Amazing woman with a incredibly brave mother. Very moved

  • @anaderol5408
    @anaderol5408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thank you for sharing your story. I've heard similar stories many times but each one is poignant and deserves to be heard, learnt from and remembered. My father survived a camp - I remember as a small child asking my dad how he got the scar on his thigh - he replied he had not 'schnelled' fast enough when told to move. It was a bayonet scar. Yet although he spent 3 years in a concentration camp - one of the first families he befriended on the ship on which we were migrating to Australia was a German family. He always distinguished between Germans / Wehrmacht and the Nazis.

  • @teddibeard9346
    @teddibeard9346 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent storytelling; she had me spellbound from start to finish with this truly miraculous account.

  • @annettereil3042
    @annettereil3042 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Eva Clarke, you tell your story so eloquently and so personally. It must be an act of courage every time you tell it. Thank you.

  • @deirdrepasko9965
    @deirdrepasko9965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    WOW.
    At first, I was only looking for videos, and I was going to exit out from here, but the way she told her story mesmerized me and I stayed. I'm glad I did.

  • @MyTinyBalcony
    @MyTinyBalcony 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Compelling. A story of love, horror, tragedy and survival. I was transfixed to the end.

  • @MothOrchid-em3ms
    @MothOrchid-em3ms 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Such a moving heartfelt tale of strength and survival. Thank you for sharing your family history.

  • @patriciakelly69
    @patriciakelly69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Listening to Eva Clark was incredible. The journey of her beautiful family and the horror that they endured was gut renchingp

  • @nandikaa471
    @nandikaa471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    What an incredible beautiful lady. Her mom was a beautiful strong woman.

    • @biker5662
      @biker5662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same. I stayed up late to watch.

  • @stephanietorres5679
    @stephanietorres5679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This is a amazing story!! Your mother was blessed to live to give birth.

  • @danyaradimacher6581
    @danyaradimacher6581 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Wow Her mother was a superwoman!! Her strength and endurance during the last part of the war enabled her and baby Eva to survive to the end

  • @Kaiapoi14
    @Kaiapoi14 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What a marvellous speaker, bless you and your family past and present. Thank you for passing on your story.

  • @VanessaKittredge
    @VanessaKittredge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She is an Exquisite beauty and historian an I feel so lucky to have heard her story in her own voice. I’m weeping.

  • @nicolarollinson4381
    @nicolarollinson4381 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who gave this a thumbs down? What a lovely lady. (She must in her 70s but her skin is amazing...that seems a pointless thing to say but she's glowing.)

  • @MatMat-qi2rd
    @MatMat-qi2rd ปีที่แล้ว

    What a narrator... what a story... thankyou so much for sharing 👌 this is so heartbreaking

  • @laurelvanwilligen9787
    @laurelvanwilligen9787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Beautifully rendered account. Thank you for your narrative and ability telling it.

  • @conemadam
    @conemadam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A brilliant woman and presenter. Extraordinary. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

  • @rebeccaclark5427
    @rebeccaclark5427 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    We need to listen to your stories. Thank you for telling them. I hear you.

  • @aurora.a6645
    @aurora.a6645 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What appaling experience Eva Clark!!!! and you the best speaker I've ever heard❣. In Italy we don't have such mastering of straight exactitude, clear elocution. Unfortunately I don't speak English very well and yours is just perfection, with rare capability to really comunicate, you "talk" to your audience, in a sincere, compelling manner. Thanks very much, dear lady💖. Your parents, intelligent, smart, good personalities as you are, have paved optimistically your way to win what was at stake✌. I was born in Italy in '43, I knew about holocaust by rumorous, magazines... I was horrified but never doubted his reality, it has been so abominable and yet possible, yes! nobody could negate the undeniable truth although hard to believe. I cried a lot thinking about cruel people and how much others could be kind 💫and keen to help❣

    • @aurora.a6645
      @aurora.a6645 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      By now, eighty yars old, since three years I’m in London. I've had Covid, I’ve refused vaccination, I’m alone and going well. I don’t like Italian Governance, wicked and plagued by bad faith propaganda ...We’ve had, still have, inforced restrictions, discrimination, human rights stamped on. Bad tide is trying to repeat itself using brand new ordeal, not overly violent but pervasive and subtly deconstructive of mentale health. I’m optimistic, given my age it wouldn’t be the case, but it could be about new generations which I credit being smarter, mentally saner, well slanted, of rightly taught fellows. So that we would, once again, overcome gruesome challenge Against all odds❣✌❣ With love, dear Eva💫, and best wishes of greater accomplishments. aurora

  • @MrElldee200
    @MrElldee200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What a powerful story. We must never forget... world must never forget. My mother is german 95 years old now...Thank you Ava for telling us your family story...X