Eva Clarke

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Eva Clarke
Anka Nathanová
(mother)

Eva Olga Clarke

college administrator known for her birth at Mauthausen concentration camp. She is a speaker for the Holocaust Educational Trust. Clarke combats modern day instances of racism and prejudice through sharing her family's experiences in the Holocaust
.

Early life

Clarke and her mother at Mauthausen on 11 May 1945

On 29 April 1945, after three years in the

German-Jewish architect, was shot and killed on 18 January 1945, shortly before the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.[4][5] Her brother Dan (George) was born in 1944 in the Theresienstadt ghetto and died of pneumonia at the age of two months.[6][7]

The family moved to Prague to live with Nathanová's cousin.[5] In February 1948,[8] Clarke's mother married her old acquaintance, Karel Bergman, a Czech Jew who had escaped to the United Kingdom in 1939 and returned as a translator in the Royal Air Force.[9][10][11] Bergman adopted Clarke and the family left Prague in September 1948.[8] Bergman found work in Pontypridd.[12] The family relocated to Cardiff and later Cyncoed. Clarke attended Rhydypenau Primary School and Our Lady’s Convent School.[5]

Career

Clarke was a

Austrian government to attend the opening of a new exhibition.[5] She is one of the three subjects of the book Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance and Hope (2015) by British writer Wendy Holden.[6] In 2020, Clarke's birth certificate was on display at the Imperial War Museum.[3] Through her testimonials, she hopes people learn from the Holocaust and combat modern day instances of racism and prejudice.[11]

Personal life

Clarke lived in Cardiff until she was 18.

bombing of Dresden while her mother, Anka Nathanová, was sheltering with other prisoners.[13] As of 2017, Clarke resides in Cambridge.[9]

Awards and honors

Clarke was one of four Holocaust survivors awarded the British Empire Medal in 2019 for their efforts to share testimonials of their experiences for future generations.[14][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Amidon, Audrey (6 May 2019). "A Mother, a Baby, a Name: Identifying One of the Youngest Survivors of the Holocaust". The Unwritten Record. Retrieved 1 March 2021.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ a b "British Empire Medals 2019 – The Lieutenancy of Cambridgeshire". Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  3. ^
    ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Holocaust survivor shares her mother's story". www.af.mil. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e Gaskell, Simon (28 April 2013). "A holocaust survivor born in a concentration camp remembers her Welsh upbringing". WalesOnline. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  6. ^ a b Brown, Ebony (12 May 2016). "The Holocaust's Youngest Survivors". Baltimore Jewish Times. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Eva Clarke, born at Mauthausen when the Third Reich collapsed". romea.cz. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  8. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4456-7148-2
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  9. ^ a b c "Holocaust survivor tells of birth in concentration camp". BBC News. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  10. ^ Rhodes, Giulia (11 May 2015). "The Holocaust's youngest survivors: Three people born in a". The Independent. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  11. ^ a b c d Pilgrim, Tom (27 January 2018). "Meet the incredible Cambridge woman born in a Nazi concentration camp". CambridgeshireLive. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  12. ^ Dermody, Nick (5 May 2013). "Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke returns to Mauthausen birthplace". BBC News. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  13. ^ Wightwick, Abbie (31 January 2015). "The remarkable story of the Welsh WW2 bomber and the future daughter-in-law who was in his line of fire". WalesOnline. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  14. ^ Frazer, Jenni (28 December 2018). "Seven Holocaust survivors on New Year's Honours List". jewishnews.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 1 March 2021.

External links

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