On 27 January 1945, 15-year-old Eva Geiringer and her mother Elfriede were among the approximately 7,000 people who experienced 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 conducted between London and Berlin with Aubrey Pomerance, Archive Manager of the Museum, Eva Schloss talks about her childhood and youth, life in hiding, the months in the hell of Birkenau, as well as the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the time that followed.

The interview is a recording from 21 Jan 2021.

Languages: German