Eva Marks

Eva Marks

Eva Marks (* 1932 in Vienna ) is an Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. Today she lives in Melbourne ( Australia ).

Life

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, she and her family fled from Vienna to Latvia due to persecution in the hope of obtaining a visa for the USA. In the context of the Barbarossa company , Eva Marks and her parents were transported by the Russians to a Gulag camp in Siberia . In 1943 she landed in another in Kazakhstan . After her liberation in 1947, she started a new life in Melbourne . She describes her life experience in her autobiography A Patchwork Life .

For decades Eva Marks campaigned for the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Europe and Russia and tried to draw more attention to the Soviet gulag, which, in her opinion, has hardly come to terms with the past. She volunteered at the Jewish Museum of Australia for 18 months, at the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Center for 17 years and was treasurer of the Friends of the Holocaust Center in Melbourne for three years .

Awards

• Child Survivors Certificate from the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Center in recognition of their outstanding contributions
• Certificate from Steve Bracks in recognition of her voluntary service at the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Center
• Certificate from the Glen Eira local government in recognition of her many hours of volunteering
• Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award

Publications

• A patchwork life. Makor Jewish Community Library, Caulfield South Vic. 2002, ISBN 1-876733-30-6 .
• Eva Marks: Nightmare-Waking. What do you remember? You were a child. (PDF; 7.13 MB) In: Center News. August 2006, p. 14 , accessed on May 16, 2013 (Vol. 28, No. 2). 

Web links

• Book review A Patchwork Life (PDF; 307 kB)
• Eva Marks (Radio National)
• Innovative 2007 Schools Reunion (from p. 14)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eva Marks: Nightmare-Waking. What do you remember? You were a child. (PDF; 7.13 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Center News. August 2006, p. 14 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 16, 2013 (Vol. 28, No. 2).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.