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- Eva Geiringer was born in Vienna to a Jewish family.
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Eva Geiringer was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. Her older brother, Heinz, was born in 1926. Shortly after the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, her family emigrated to Belgium and finally to the Netherlands. [3]
On 27 January 1945, 15-year-old Eva Geiringer and her mother Elfriede were among the around 7,000 people who witnessed the liberation of the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps by the Soviet Army.
1930s. Eva Geiringer was born on May 11, 1929. Like many Jews in Vienna, the Geiringers felt accepted in Austrian society and had Jewish and non-Jewish friends. Erich Geiringer was a shoe...
Sep 10, 2019 · Following the German invasion of Austria in March 1938 and the increasing persecution of Jewish people the family fled to Breda in Holland. Eva’s father secured a Dutch visa but Eva, her mother and her brother could only secure visitor visas.
Mar 27, 2023 · The film Eva’s Promise largely focuses on the story of Eva’s brother Heinz Geiringer, and her promise to him on the train to Auschwitz that she would retrieve his artwork and poetry from floorboards should he not survive, in order to preserve his story.
After the Soviets liberated Auschwitz in January 1945, Eva and Fritzi traveled with other refugees through the Soviet Union and eventually made it back to Amsterdam.
Feb 22, 2019 · Eva Geiringer was born in Vienna in 1929. She remembers her early years as idyllic – this was the Vienna of Freud and Zweig, a cosmopolitan city which despite political and economic dysfunction had become a haven for native Jews and German-Jewish refugees alike.
