How I Survived the Holocaust - by Eva Schloss and Solly Irving

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Anne Frank's step sister and one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald share their stories

Join us for this one-off opportunity to hear the powerful stories of two incredible people.

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Eva Schloss is the step-sister of Anne Frank, following her mother's marriage to Anne's father Otto Frank for 27 years. Eva was one month older than Anne, but says that: "Anne was much more mature and grown-up than me." Eva will never forget her 15th birthday when she and her mother had just moved to a new hiding place in the Netherlands - their seventh - but the Dutch nurse who had led them there then betrayed them. She was a Nazi double agent. Eva then spent nine months in Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and lost her beloved father and brother during the Holocaust. For 40 years Eva did not speak about her experiences.

Solly Irving was only 14 years old when he was liberated from Theresienstadt Camp in May 1945 - being the only survivor from his large, Orthodox family, including his parents and four sisters. Nine years old when the war broke out, Solly spent time in a number of different camps including a year in Buchenwald death camp in Germany and had to endure a month long journey in a cattle car watching many perish along the way. After the war he was one of the first children to be offered a home in England, known as "the boys". As Solly says: "I was destined to survive".