Eva's Story by Eva Schloss

Author:Eva Schloss [Schloss, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: holocaust, auschwitz, the holocaust, memoirs, denis avey, world war ii, world war 2, germany, motivating men, survival
Publisher: eBookPartnership.com
Published: 2012-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

24 October 1944 Aachen captured by US First Army

Feeling totally deserted, I was now losing the courage and hope that had kept me alive. I knew I had lost Mutti and I longed desperately for Pappy. I needed someone to encourage me to live; without loving help I could not fight on for survival. I was full of self-pity. I was too young to be left on my own. There was no one I wanted to talk to or confide in. Everyone around me seemed so much older than I was. Even Franzi, who was twenty-five, seemed ancient to me.

Before this time I had been driven by a consuming urge to survive, a spirit fuelled by my close bond with Mutti, my need to live for her sake as well as my own, and by the early training in survival I had received from Pappy. Now I began to realize I could no longer cling to the past. Even if I were to survive, I could not envisage any kind of future for myself. I didn’t see how I could cope in a world without my family.

And so, suffering the horrors of the present and seeing no hope in the future, I began to resign myself to death.

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