Holocaust survivor to speak at Union (From Oxford Mail)

Holocaust survivor to speak at Union

4:16pm Tuesday 3rd February 2009 in Oxford

A holocaust survivor was due to speak at the Oxford Union debating club tonight.

Eva Neumann, 70, who was born in Czechoslovakia, was deported by the Nazis in April 1944 and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where her mother and siblings died.

After being put to work sorting the clothing of those sent to their deaths, she survived a death march as the Nazis fled from oncoming Russians and was rescued by a Russian soldier after being left for dead among a pile of corpses.

She is due to speak about her experiences.