The last babies from Mauthausen – Diepresse.com

Hana Berger-Moran, Mark Olsky and Eva Clarke are not related, but they are siblings. « Siblings in the heart, » they call themselves. The three, just 80 in April, sitting intimately together, poor in arm, on a sofa in the Vienna Café Caspar, speak of the « miracle » that they are common here today. That they live at all.

The three knew nothing about each other until around 15 years ago. « There were rumors about other babies in Mauthausen, but my mother said I was probably the only one who lives. It was unimaginable that one still survived, » says Mark Olsky. Like Hana Berger-Moran, he came from the USA, Eva Clarke from Great Britain, on Sunday you will visit the commemoration in Mauthausen together. The place that is officially a place of birth in their papers. They also came to Vienna to tell their history in front of students, those of their young mothers, who gave birth to them 80 years ago under the most inhumane conditions.

How can a baby survive a concentration camp? How did your mothers manage to hide their pregnancies as completely starved forced laborers whose became known their death sentence?