In the shadow of trauma – Life after Auschwitz | DW Documentary

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Eva Umlauf is one of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She has no active memory of the time she spent there. For more than 70 years, her past and her family’s fate played no role in her life.

But when she suffered a heart attack at the age of 74, she realized that she had to come to terms with this part of her life.

Eva Umlauf was two years old, emaciated and extremely ill when the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz camp on January 27, 1945.

Her mother returned with her two daughters to her father’s birthplace, near Bratislava. Everyone else in the family was dead. A shadow of trauma lay over Eva’s young life.

During her medical studies, she met her first husband Jakob, a Polish Jew, and followed him to Munich. She found happiness and security at his side.

But a few years later, Jakob died in a tragic accident. Eva was left on her own to fend for herself and her young son. Eventually, she remarried and had two more sons.

Later in life, her past suddenly caught up with her. She decided to consciously confront it, to give her children and grandchildren a life less burdened by the past.

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24 thoughts on “In the shadow of trauma – Life after Auschwitz | DW Documentary”

  3. The question is why this happens to the Jews everywhere around the world? Do the Jews wonder about it and did a research about it what makes the nations hosting them to take such drastic measurements against them after some time?

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  9. My 106 year old great-grandfather died of Covid-19 early on in the pandemic.
    ..He would have killed to have access to a vaccine(s)!!
    I still can't believe people refuse to get immunized against such a deadly disease!
    They nearly stole our precious democracy. I stand with Ukraine, etc.

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  12. I admire the way Eva worked out her life, where she chose to live, her husband being a German… What wonderful insights she gained through the better part of her life it seems., The blessings of having a son.
    Regardless of some trying to shame her, kick her down, and her courage with many pressures/weights, to seeminly transcending some things that would have kept others down.. Is it her love for her life and cherishing it, valuing what she does have now(?) Probably that and more..
    Glad I listened to her story. I see her gracefulness and her love too. I like her thoughts she shared. If I had interviewed her, I would be tempted to ask more questions about her, but am glad for her and her story…
    Wishing her a long life with all those close to her that she loves and those that love her..
    Take care Eva,
    🌹

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