Eva Schloss - Surviving Auschwitz

00:00 | Trailer
04:20 Brian’s thoughts about the episode
07:02 Brian’s introduction
07:40 Eva’s memories of London from 1952, as she begins to make a new life
13:29 Growing up in Vienna, Austria, she had a spirit of adventure
18:30 Registered in a Jewish community, but with no anti-semitism until the Nazis marched in
22:11 How an uneducated man like Hitler came to be elected and the rise of antisemitism in Germany
26:24 Everyone thought the communists were the enemy, but Churchill realized it was the Nazis
29:24 Eva thanks the Russians for her liberation, paying tribute to their courage and sacrifice in WWII
29:56 From 1938, people’s rights were slowly taken from them
32:50 Can you imagine what it feels like to a child to realise you are nothing
34:59 1939: Eva moves to Holland where she meets Anne Frank
38:54 Eva meets Otto Frank, the father of Anne
39:38 1940: The Germans invaded Holland, and there was nowhere to escape
40:51 The steps that were taken against the Jewish people, and the time when children started to disappear
43:01 1942: The family split up to go into hiding for two years
47:37 Betrayed
48:58 What it was like as a teenager to be in hiding
51:31 Anne Frank was also in hiding, writing her diary which became the book “The Diary of a Young Girl
“54:15 “Night” by Elie Wiesel in 1960 — too early for people to learn what happened in concentration camps
56:15 On Eva’s 15th birthday, someone knocked on the door, and she was taken to Gestapo HQ for questioning
58:17 She was in shock and was imprisoned with hundreds of other people
After that, they were brought to a holding camp
1:01:06 Transportation to Auschwitz with no hope of staying alive
It was the camp where the family is split up
1:09:30 Eva sees it all in front of her as if it were just yesterday
The images in her head
will never go away
1:10:23 Josef Mengele chose who should live and who should die
1:14:04 The time when they were treated like an animal
1:22:56 How do you keep any kind of hope in this type of situation
1:23:44 Two miracles happen
1:35:26 She witnessed terrible scenes of death
1:39:54 Eva made an amazingly courageous move
1:41:17 Eva nearly gave up and then another miracle happened
1:46:17 In January 1945, there was another miracle for Eva
1:54:24 The Russians arrived and traveled across Europe
2:05:14 Travelling from Odessa to Holland
2:14:23 The last straw for Eva
2:17:36 What the following years were like for Eva
2:19:00 Eva made a plea for today’s refugees and gave advice for Donald Trump
2:23:20 How Eva sees the world today

2:27:51 Her view of the Nuremberg Trials
2:29:18 The way the world is going now scares Eva
2:30:43 Are there still necessary reparations that must be made
2:36:19 How Eva has healed over the years
2:41:13 The world scares her now more than during the period after WWII
2:43:25 Eva and her mother found the thirty paintings Otto (Anne Frank’s brother) hid under the floorboards
2:46:54 What Eva wants people to take from this episode
2:55:09 Brian was summing up.