![]() ![]() They were being transferred from a slave labor camp in Frieberg, near Dresden, to Mauthausen, and during their nightmare trip were given no food and little water. Less than three weeks previously, her heavily-pregnant mother, along with other concentration camp prisoners, had been put on the coal truck (one of many carriages on a train) by German soldiers. During her third visit to RAF Mildenhall, she spoke to Airmen at a Holocaust Remembrance Week event and shared her mother's experiences throughout that time.īorn in Mauthausen concentration camp, Upper Austria, April 29, 1945, Eva Clarke – weighing just 3 pounds – made her way into the world on the back of a coal truck three days before the U.S. ![]() 100th Air Refueling Wing Public AffairsĮditor’s note: Eva Clarke was born at the end of the Holocaust to Jewish parents who were kept as prisoners-of-war in Terezin (called 'Theresienstadt' by the Germans), in former Czechoslovakia. ![]()
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