Eva Marks

Eva Marks ( born 1932 in Vienna) is an Austrian Holocaust survivor. She now lives in Melbourne ( Australia).

Life

After annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 she fled because of persecution with her family from Vienna to Latvia, in hopes there to obtain a visa for the USA. In the context of Operation Barbarossa Eva Marks was transported with her parents by the Russians to Siberia in a gulag. In 1943, she landed in a further in Kazakhstan. After her release in 1947 she began a new life in Melbourne to build. She describes her experience of life in her autobiography, A Patchwork Life.

For decades, Eva Marks began for the commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust in Europe and Russia, trying to draw the attention increasingly to the Russian gulags, about their opinion, hardly dealing with the past has taken place. She did 18 months volunteering at the Jewish Museum of Australia, 17 years at the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre and spent three years as Treasurer of the Friends of the Holocaust Centre in Melbourne.

Awards

  • Certificate of Steve Bracks in recognition of her volunteer service at the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre
  • Certificate of the local government area of ​​Glen Eira in recognition of their many hours of Frewilligendienst
  • Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award

Publications

  • A Patchwork Life. Makor Jewish Community Library, Caulfield South Vic. 2002, ISBN 1-876733-30-6.
  • Template: Internet resource / Maintenance / date is not in the ISO FormatEva Marks: Waking Nightmare. What Do You remember? You were a child. In: Centre News. Vol 28, No. 2, August 2006, p 14, accessed on 16 May 2013 ( PDF, 7.13 MB ).
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