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About the Authors & Translator
EVA UMLAUF was one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. After World War II she returned with her mother and sister to Trencín in Czechoslovakia. She studied medicine, married a fellow Holocaust survivor and managed, with difficulty, to leave Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia in 1966 and settled with her husband in Munich. After his untimely death and with a child to support, she worked as a clinic doctor, later opening a pediatrics practice and becoming a child psychotherapist. She married a second time and had two more sons. Eva spoke at the 2011 commemoration ceremony in Auschwitz, and since then has been involved in many research projects and as a contemporary witness at international conferences. She continues to practice psychotherapy.
STEFANIE OSWALT earned her doctorate in Jewish Studies in Potsdam. She worked as a freelance journalist for Deutschland Radio and as an author in Berlin. Most recently, she published Ari Means Lion (with Ari Rath, Zsolnay Verlag, 2012).
SHELLEY FRISCH taught at Columbia University and Haverford College, where she chaired the German Department, before turning to translation full-time in the 1990s. Her translations from German, including biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Marlene Dietrich/Leni Riefenstahl (dual biography), and Franz Kafka, along with many other works of fiction and nonfiction, have been awarded numerous translation prizes, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize.
MICHAEL BRENNER is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and director of American University’s Center for Israel Studies. He is the author of none books including After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany, and Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism. He is the co-author of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times, for which he was awarded a National Jewish Book Award. Additionally he is the Editor of nineteen books.
NAOMI UMLAUF is a student at Brown University and Eva’s granddaughter. In her afterword she discusses the impact of the Holocaust on her family and on herself as a third-generation survivor.
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“Among the accounts of people who survived the Holocaust, Eva Umlauf‘s is a most remarkable one. When just under two she had a number tattooed on her arm and against all odds survived to tell her tale.” — Dr. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, last surviving member of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
“Eva Umlauf reveals what it was like to live in the shadow of the Holocaust, under Communism, and in an emerging Federal Republic of Germany. Her story will surprise even those who think they know everything about the Holocaust.” — Professor Michael Brenner, American University; author of After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany, and co-author of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times
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