Writer, Journalist. Holocaust survivor. Eva Brewster was a German-born Canadian writer and journalist who contributed to many daily and weekly newspapers and magazines. On April 20, 1943, in celebration of Adolf Hitler's birthday, 1000 young Jews were transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Twenty-one-year-old Eva Brewster (originally known as Daniela Raphael), her husband, Freddy Raphael, baby daughter, Reha Raphael, and mother, Elizabeth Levy, were among that transport. Her husband and daughter, along with 991 others, did not survive. They were among the estimated 1.5 million people who died at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940 and 1945. Eva's life became dedicated to exposing the horrors of the Shoah [the Holocaust] that it might not ever happen again. In 1984, her book Vanished in Darkness: An Auschwitz Memoir was published, which won the best non-fiction award in the annual Alberta Culture Award. In 1994, an expanded edition of the original 1984 book was published: Progeny of Light / Vanished in Darkness; it received a Canadian Jewish Book Award. In 2007, Eva's story was presented in an exhibit at the Galt Museum in Lethbridge, Alberta. AUSCHWITZ the Eva Brewster Story — the exhibit travelled across Canada.
Writer, Journalist. Holocaust survivor. Eva Brewster was a German-born Canadian writer and journalist who contributed to many daily and weekly newspapers and magazines. On April 20, 1943, in celebration of Adolf Hitler's birthday, 1000 young Jews were transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Twenty-one-year-old Eva Brewster (originally known as Daniela Raphael), her husband, Freddy Raphael, baby daughter, Reha Raphael, and mother, Elizabeth Levy, were among that transport. Her husband and daughter, along with 991 others, did not survive. They were among the estimated 1.5 million people who died at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940 and 1945. Eva's life became dedicated to exposing the horrors of the Shoah [the Holocaust] that it might not ever happen again. In 1984, her book Vanished in Darkness: An Auschwitz Memoir was published, which won the best non-fiction award in the annual Alberta Culture Award. In 1994, an expanded edition of the original 1984 book was published: Progeny of Light / Vanished in Darkness; it received a Canadian Jewish Book Award. In 2007, Eva's story was presented in an exhibit at the Galt Museum in Lethbridge, Alberta. AUSCHWITZ the Eva Brewster Story — the exhibit travelled across Canada.
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BREWSTER
JIMMY R.
7 April 1955
29 July 1979
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EVA
28 Dec. 1922
3 Dec. 2004
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DR. J. ROSS
24 Mar. 1920
18 Oct. 1986
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