Eva Cohn

Born: July 28, 1929 in Kal, Hungary.

Camp: Auschwitz.

Freed: April, 1945.

Arrived in Sweden: May, 1945.

I shut everything out. Everything. I don’t understand how I did it. I didn’t think about my parents. I didn’t know I was in Auschwitz.

I lived in a barack with hundreds of other people, but I didn’t notice. I only knew that it was barack number 8. I later learned that it was a barack for children.

Even I feel that it can’t have been true, all of this, that they almost exterminated a whole population. If I can’t fathom it, how can I make other people understand it?”