Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Did Eva write too?

And Eva did the same, yes. And, you know, we went together. She was on the other side of England—we saw each other on holiday. She was in a posh school. I was in a very poor family but with a very good heart—a Christian family. But again, they made me feel at home. They accepted that I was Jewish. They didn't force me to go to church. But they said it would be nice if I went. And I thought, "Well, there's only one God. Where...wherever I am I will pray for my fam...my dear parents as I did every night." And uh, I—it um, and really it was my parents who gave me this wonderful gift of all the records of those years, which were now on paper. And the diaries—they were meant for them, for them alone. And I felt—after I found out that father was shot on a death—in a—on a death march in December 1944, you know, that my mother had perished of typhus and all the rest of it and about the rest of the family. I put all the diaries in a box and I felt I could never bear to open them again because they were meant for my parents and my parents alone. And it wasn't ‘til uh, after I came back to England—because I went back to Prague at the end of the war, and I was there for three and a half years, and I studied at uh, Prague University. I took English and literature.

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