White Illustrative Creative Literature Project Presentation (1).pdf

Eva Heyman- story

1. Life
story
Eva Heyman
Presented by: Romanian Team

2. Overview
Life before
The life in the
Ghetto
Final days
Conclusions

3. Introduction
For three and a half months, from February to May 1944, Eva kept a diary
which gives us an insight into how she and those close to her felt the
consequences of the anti-Semitic policies imposed by the authorities.
“Dear diary, […] you’re my best friend and I mustn’t keep any secret from
you.”
The book
General concepts
The aim of the presentation is to familiarize you with the life of Eva Heyman, a
teenager from Oradea, a town in Northern Transylvania in the period 1940-1944.

4. She was born in February 13,
1931.The young diarist Éva Heyman
grew up in a secular middle-class
family in the town of Nagyvárad
Her parents was Agnes and
Bela,Her parents divorced and she
moved in with hermother
grandparents.
Context and Life
Context
Nagyvárad was the big city in
Romania after 1918. For centuries,
Jews played a significant role in the
economic, social, and intellectual life
of the city. The city had famous
Jewish doctors, writers, lawyers and
businessmen. Between 1919 and
1940, the city belonged to Rumania,
and afterwards to Hungary.
Characters Theme
In the 1940s the city’s Jewish
population was more than 21,000
people out of a total population of
about 100,000. The majority of the
them spoke Hungarian. Éva and her
family belonged to the progressive
Jewish community and her great-
grandfather – Dr. Sándor Rosenberg –
was the first Neolog Chief Rabbi of
Nagyvárad

5. The Journal
3 February 1944 - Eva's
13th birthday.
Eva is an ordinary child
who prefers to eat
strawberries with
whipped cream, go
skating and ride her bike.
26 March 1944 - the
radio announces an air
raid or the Jews are
cursed. Anti-Jewish
laws are also
announced, and all
sorts of things Jews
are not allowed to do.
1 May 1944 - From today
we are not allowed to
walk on the streets
between 9 and 10 am. My
little diary, we started
packing, but only one
change of underwear and
the clothes and clothing
on our backs. I have never
been so scared!
29 May 1944 - My
little diary, now it
really is all over.
They have divided
the ghetto into
sectors and are
taking us all away .

6. The Diary
"February 13, 1944.
I've turned thirteen, I was born on Friday
the thirteenth. [...] From Grandma Racz, I
got a light tan spring coat and a navy
blue knit dress. From my father, a pair of
high-heeled shoes. From Grandma
Lujza, three pairs of pajamas, a dozen
colored handkerchiefs and candy [...]
From Grandpa, phonograph records of
the kind I like. My grandfather bought
them so that I should learn French lyrics,
which will make Ági [Éva’s mother]
happy, because she isn't happy about my
school record cards except when I get a
good mark in French, because a news
photographer has to be good in
languages. I do a lot of athletics,
swimming, skating, bicycle riding, and
exercise. [...]
First
“Uncle Béla can’t work anyway, on
account of the Jewish law. The law
also applies to pharmacists, but thank
God it doesn’t include Grandpa,
because Jews are allowed to keep
pharmacies if they actually own them;
only pharmacy managers cannot be
Jews. That is why Bácskay is now in
the pharmacy, too, as manager, but
Grandpa does the actual work, even
though Bácskay is a young man.”
Anti-Jews Legislation
confiscate Éva’s bike
April 7, 1944
Today they came for my bicycle. I
almost caused a big drama. You
know, dear diary, I was awfully
afraid just by the fact that the
policemen came into the house. I
know that policemen bring only
trouble with them, wherever they
go [...] So, dear diary, I threw
myself on the ground, held on to
the back wheel of my bicycle, and
shouted all sorts of things at the
policemen: 'Shame on you for
taking away a bicycle from a girl!
That's robbery!' We had saved up
for a year and a half to buy the
bicycle [...] No Jewkid is entitled
to keep a bicycle anymore.

7. Eva Heyman -
children
Eva teenager
Eva with Justi in
1935 Eva `s mother (right)
The Diary

8. Jurnal analysis
What restrictions does
ghettoisation bring?
Argue, what Eva wanted
to do in the future!
Arguments
Interpret the idea:
I'd let myself be kissed by
that cross-eyed gendarme
who took our flour, if only
he wouldn't kill me, if only
he'd let me live.
Interpretation
.
Analysis
Critical
Reception

9. AFTER THE END OF
WORLD WAR II HER
MOTHER RETURN FROM
SWITZERLAND AND
SEARCH FOR HER
DAUGHTER, BUT
RECEIVED THE DETAIL
OF HOW SHE HAD BEEN
KILLED IN AUSCHWITZ.
Conclusions
01 02 03
"A good-hearted female doctor
was trying to hide my child, but
Mengele foundher without effort.
Eva's feet were full of sore
wounds. 'Now look at you',
Mengele shouted, 'you frog, your
feet are foul, reeking with pus! Up
with you on the truck!'
Eyewitnesses told me that he
himself had pushed her on to the
truck."
Yet, my little Diary, I don't want to
die, I still want to live, even if it
means that only I remain behind from
this entire district. I would wait for
the end of the war in a cellar, or in
the attic, or any hole, I would, my
little Diary, I would even allow that
cross-eyed gendarme who took the
flour from us to kiss me, only not to
be killed, only to be left alive!

10. Thank's For
Watching