Eva Clarke

Eva Clarke was born in the Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, on April 29, 1945. If the camp’s gas chambers hadn’t been blown up the day before and the Americans hadn’t liberated Mauthausen just days after Eva’s birth, neither she nor her mother would have survived. The two were the only survivors of their family, 15 of whom were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eva and her mother eventually went to Prague, where Anna married Eva’s stepfather in February 1948. In the same year they emigrated to the UK and settled in Cardiff. Eva married an academic lawyer in 1968, has two sons, and has been living in Cambridge ever since.