Eva Clarke born in Mauthausen concentrationcamp, Austria. Eva weighed about 3lbs/1.5 kg. If the camp's gas chambers hadn’tbeen blown up on 28th April 1945 and the Americans hadn’t liberated Mauthausenjust days after Eva’s birth, neither mother or child would have survived. Read more of Eva's testimony here: https://www.het.org.uk/survivors-eva-clarke
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One of three reports that comprise the "Auschwitz protocols" - they were published in Slovak and translated to English and distributed throughout the West. These reports detailed eye-witness accounts of Auschwitz and other Nazi atrocities from two prisoners who'd escaped earlier in April. This publication led to the UK, America and others condemning Hungary. Death camp transports from Hungary stopped in July 1944 (The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz, 2000)
https://archive.org/details/USWRBGermanExterminationCampsAuschwitzAndBirkenau http://auschwitz.org/en/history/informing-the-world/reports-by-auschwitz-escapees https://web.archive.org/web/20180727124138/http://vrbawetzler.eu/img/static/Prilohy/The-Auschwitz-Protocol.pdf |
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