In the shadow of trauma - Life after Auschwitz | DW Documentary

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.

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