Eva was born in 1936 in Cluj, Romania. In 1940, Nazi Germany annexed this part of Romania to Hungary. When Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in 1944, Eva and her mother hid under false names. They were soon discovered and deported to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. Her mother did not survive the journey to the camp. In March 1945, Eva and other inmates were sent to Bergen Belsen, where she was eventually liberated by British troops. She returned to Hungary alone, and two years later discovered that her father had survived, remarried and had a new son. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1957. They settled in Los Angeles where Eva married a fellow Holocaust Survivor and raised four children. 

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Joe Alexander

Friday, August 25 at 11:30 am

Joe was born in 1922 in Kowal, Poland. At the beginning of the war, his family lived in Blonie, Poland and then were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. Joe's father bribed some guards to let Joe and two of his siblings escape back to Kowal. This was the last time he saw the rest of his family. From Kowal, Joe was sent to different concentration camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau. Towards the end of the war, he was sent on a death march. He was liberated by American troops in 1945. He immigrated to the United States in 1949 where he married and had three children.