In the shadow of trauma - Life after Auschwitz | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Eva Umlauf is one of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She has no active memory of the time she spent there. For more than 70 years, her past and her family’s fate played no role in her life.
But when she suffered a heart attack at the age of 74, she realized that she had to come to terms with this part of her life.
Eva Umlauf was two years old, emaciated and extremely ill when the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz camp on January 27, 1945.
Her mother returned with her two daughters to her father's birthplace, near Bratislava. Everyone else in the family was dead. A shadow of trauma lay over Eva’s young life.
During her medical studies, she met her first husband Jakob, a Polish Jew, and followed him to Munich. She found happiness and security at his side.
But a few years later, Jakob died in a tragic accident. Eva was left on her own to fend for herself and her young son. Eventually, she remarried and had two more sons.
Later in life, her past suddenly caught up with her. She decided to consciously confront it, to give her children and grandchildren a life less burdened by the past.
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Thank you so much for sharing your story Eva. I cannot imagine what you have been through, but thank you for opening up and making sure to share your story so we can all learn and prevent this from happening again. ❤
What a strong, resilient woman ... not an easy life, she did held up ... without playing the victim ..❤❤❤
She looks amazing for 80.
Truly heartbreaking. All this for what, for an ideology. It pains me that this is happening all again, that we thought this wouldn't be possible in this day and age. Here I shall remain with my humanity intact, to listen and learn from others and to call out atrocities that seek to divide. Thank you to Eva for sharing your story and for showing us that healing is possible even if our voices shake.
She is a miracle!!!! All those diseases and she survived!!!!
Heartbreaking story! I'm amazed how humble & intelligent the lady was, and how patiently she took her fate! Can someone tell me what is the name of the book!
I drove past Auschwitz in 2020. I did not visit, and perhaps couldnt, but felt this was hell on Earth. Beyond war, what happened here was not only inhuman, but also not something animals would do to others. Society should make sure to teach what happened and to punish such industrial extermination attempts.
Greetings from Canada thanks for sharing this heart warming story about Eva's life before getting married and after the death of her husband 😊
Thanks for watching and taking the time to share your thoughts!
I admire the way Eva worked out her life, where she chose to live, her husband being a German... What wonderful insights she gained through the better part of her life it seems., The blessings of having a son.
Regardless of some trying to shame her, kick her down, and her courage with many pressures/weights, to seeminly transcending some things that would have kept others down.. Is it her love for her life and cherishing it, valuing what she does have now(?) Probably that and more..
Glad I listened to her story. I see her gracefulness and her love too. I like her thoughts she shared. If I had interviewed her, I would be tempted to ask more questions about her, but am glad for her and her story...
Wishing her a long life with all those close to her that she loves and those that love her..
Take care Eva,
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She has endured and got through so much in her ilife. Note to self, when I am feeling sorry for myself, remember this woman.
God bless all the survivors and the ones who were killed may they RIP. It was a horrible time that shouldve never happened.
WE CAN NEVER FORGET!!!❤❤❤
This is an inspiring experience of resilience and determination.
"Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy" - Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials. Doesn't this describe Elon & Trump? 😎
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This was a very good film. Very inspiring to watch even though I wish the events had never taken place.
Some of these comments are very inappropriate and hateful. Shameful.
There are many vile, evil people in this world unfortunately. All the more reason for good people with intelligence to take a stand.
I reported one. I haven’t looked further yet.
Dec 19th was a blessed day we share the same birthday God Bless!
What a beautiful estory!
Amazing
German 🇩🇪 death camp Auschwitz
A brave soul.
A heroine and a symbol for the indomitable and strong will to survive.
Danke ❤
You know whats worse is using this tragedy to cover up all other tragedys. It was bad but other massacres have happened since then
Like in Syria ? Yemen ? Happening in Sudan !
I survived the American invasion in baghdad too two millions killed
You started the war in Kuwait, developed nuclear reactors in Osiraq and exterminated the citizens of Halabja in the 1980s with poison gas.
@@robynsjp jewden doing hasbara?you must be from somewhere very far away.
Since when has Baghdad ever had a population of 2M?
Does Never Again not apply to Palestinian children and innocent civilians?
No, because the situations are not at all comparable.
@ why not. Because one is racially superior? We’ve heard that before.
This is an awesome women. She deserves more than an award.
Thank you so very much for this daily, nay, this hourly reminder of the holocaust. God forbid we ever not hear about it. 🙄
How could she have remembered? She was only 2 1/2 years old in sommer of 1945. Please, explain.
There is something called family memories, passed down through generations. Her mother must have told her the details of having arrived in Birkenau, don't you think? Hopefully such important "doubts" of yours don't hide the intention to deny the Holocaust, by the way...
Read about Dr Gabor Mate. Then you will understand.
What about Palestine? Germany take responsibility
What about irrelevant, self-serving Whataboutism? 🤔
what about hamas? what about islamic terrorism in Europe? when will muslim countries take responsibility and apologize to Europeans? palestinians bombed Fiumicino airport in Rome in 1972. When will they formally apologize and pay the victims?? shameful people
@@kazooku If you could be bothered to just research the casualties of J. ew terrorism you'd be surprised at the scale and horrific acts perpetrated against westerners in order to build their "country". They were killing Brits and American soldiers for a long time with complete impunity. USS Liberty is a good example and only the tip of a very large iceberg. They were never victims until their wretched acts throughout history came back to bite them. Even then it's arguable.
This video is about this lady's story not every tragedy @@kazooku
What's occurring in Palestine is just as tragic and important as what happened to Jewish families in the 1940s. Wrong is wrong, no matter the religion or creed.
Friendship with no limit. EU and Israel. !!!!!! Besties ever
How old is she? 90-100?
82.
🇮🇱Free Palestine🇺🇸
Really not a right place for this
@@Agnes-Veeit’s the perfect place . No one is mpurning their traumatized and murdered souls
@@naniheavens3482 I can't make sense of what you wrote. Mpurning? What does that mean?
Yuk no way
What about Gaza 😢
Its happening to Palestinians now.
DW's propaganda quota must be met or else.
Still milking to this day😂
Wiki makes the Eruv look like a land grab
Palestine
Someday they would make a documentary that says “ I survived the Gaza Wars “.
I wonder what it would say.
Free palestine from river to the sea
The right time?! Trying to remind people to feel guilty so that the poor palestinians can pay the price of the european sins without complaint!
The German People are a great and noble People.🇨🇦🇩🇪
Propaganda.
Where do you find the sympathy for the victims turned perpetrators for the same atrocities? They never learned a thing
What about stuffed peppers from Costco lol. Some fn crazy people here.
sure you did…
Thanks to The brave Russians. Spasiba.
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