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Eva Heyman (1931–1944)

Autore di The Diary of Eva Heyman: Child of the Holocaust

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Nome canonico
Heyman, Eva
Data di nascita
1931-02-13
Data di morte
1944-10-17
Luogo di sepoltura
Auschwitz
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
Hungary
Nazione (per mappa)
Romania
Luogo di nascita
Nagyvárad, Hungary
Luogo di morte
Auschwitz, Poland
Luogo di residenza
Nagyvarad, Hungary (now Oradea, Romania)
Attività lavorative
diarist
Relazioni
Zsolt, Bela (stepfather)
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Éva Heyman was born in Nagyvárad, Hungary (present-day Oradea, Romania) in 1933. Her parents Ágnes and Bela Heyman divorced when she was very young and she went to live with her maternal grandparents, while maintaining occasional contact with both her mother and father. Her mother remarried to a famous Hungarian author, Béla Zsolt. Éva began her diary at age 13 in February 1944, as Nazi Germany invaded Nagyvárad, and ended it on May 30. Three days later, she was deported to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered in the gas chamber in October 1944. Her mother and stepfather survived World War II. Ágnes found Éva's diary in 1945 and had it published in Hungarian. It was translated and published in English as The Diary of Éva Heyman in 1974.

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WP:List of posthumous publications of Holocaust victims in Collaborative work (Aprile 2012)

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Alexandra Zapruder, editor of Salvaged Pages, a collection of children's Holocaust diaries, believes this diary isn't genuine and was in fact mostly or entirely authored by Eva's mother, Agnes Zoldt, who committed suicide after the war. I respect Ms. Zapruder's scholarship and thus read this diary with a jaundiced eye, but I can't find anything that leads me to believe it was written by anyone other than Eva. The voice sounds like an intelligent thirteen-year-old girl to me. Zapruder cites inconsistencies in the style and content as the reason for her belief that the diary is fabricated, but these inconsistencies can be explained by the fact that she was reading a translation of a translation of the book. (From Hungarian to Hebrew to English. The original diary was lost shortly after its publication.)

Though the diary only covers a few months, the entries are very detailed, and you can see Eva's life -- and the lives of all the Jews in Hungary -- crumble all to pieces. Recommended.

Fact of note: Eva's stepfather was Bela Zsolt, a well-known Hungarian writer and politician, who wrote his own Holocaust memoir, Nine Suitcases.
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