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Eva Heyman was a Jewish girl from Oradea. During the German occupation of Hungary, 1944, which was the last country to be occupied by the Germans, she began keeping a diary for a short time before she got deported to Auschwitz She was born on February 13, 1931 and died on October 17, 1944 when she was only 13 years old.

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The Act of Resistance: Notes, Details, Dates, Important Facts:

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The Act of Resistance: Notes, Details, Dates, Important Facts:

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Eva kept a diary during the holocaust, showing the terrifying times she lived through. There were entries even up to right before her death. Even though she didn’t have much time to live and write she shared a lot of deep words. The jews of her city were forced into a cramped and unsanitary ghetto.Two months later Eva was deported to Auschwitz, deportations began on May 24. Until the end, Eva hoped, although she was getting more and more scared, that maybe she would escape. "I, my Little Journal, do not want to die, I want to live, even if out of the whole sector only I could stay here...". She was then murdered on October 1944 in Auschwitz.

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This song reminds me of Heyman because of her courage and strength and faith. Eva did lose faith, especially near her death, but never completely and always had hope. She wanted everything to be alright again. She wanted to get out and have everything still, that's why this song reminds me of her. She had faith and wanted everything to be better.

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Peace Be Still (feat. Lauren Daigle) // The Belonging Co // All The Earth

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Heyman's parents divorced when she was a young child. Her mother was living in Paris when the Germans invaded Poland. But then got deported and was held at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp but later was rescued from the camp and made it safely to Switzerland. While Eva's mother and stepfather managed to escape from the ghetto, Eva and her grandparents met their end in the gas chambers. Her mother made it out but then committed suicide after Eva's dairy was published.

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"I can't write anymore, dear diary. The tears run from my eyes." These words were the last words Eva wrote in her diary before she was killed.

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Eva’s diary has had a huge impact on how we feel and what we know about the holocaust itself. We see the awful things she and so many more had to experience during this time. She was very passionate in her writing because she wrote right up until her death. She shares some deep truths and brave words to the world through her diary. Many younger girls today share her story through instagram because she has inspired them so deeply through her works. In 2019, an Israeli businessman and his daughter launched an interesting project: an Instagram account called "Eva stories", with actors performing small scenes from the little Jewish girl's diary, which gathered 1.2 million followers. Eva Heyman's diary, recovered by her mother from the family cook, who took her out of the ghetto, has been published, re-edited and translated.

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A photo taken 27 May 1944 in Oswiecim, showing Nazis selecting prisoners on the platform at the entrance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. 

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Auschwitz opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps. Located in southern Poland, it initially served as a detention center for political prisoners. However, it evolved into a network of camps where Jewish people and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated, often in gas chambers, or used as slave labor. More than 1 million people, by some accounts, lost their lives at Auschwitz.

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Year of unveiling - 2015

Person/persons/event to whom the monument is dedicated -

The statue represents Eva Heyman, a young girl from Oradea who became famous thanks to the diary she kept during the Jewish ghettos in Oradea, at the age of 13, being deported in 1944 by Hungarian authorities and dying prematurely in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Localization - Parcul Nicolae Bălcescu, strada Sucevei, nr. 65, Oradea, 410095

Location in relation to the surroundings - The statue is located in the Nicolae Bălcescu Park in Oradea.

http://monuments-remembrance.eu/en/panstwa/rumunia-2/103-the-eva-heyman-memorial

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I believe this song represents all the awful things that happened during WW2, the atrocities. It represents how Eva felt during this time, before her death she had almost given up and she wrote about how she had little faith. With how awful the world was.

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Antony and the Johnsons - Atrocities (with Closed Caption Lyrics)

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The film progresses to relate the progressing nightmare of Jews in Hungary during the war, and how Heyman's world was shattered by the Nazi occupation of Hungary in March 1944

By JEREMY SHARON

The story of Eva Heyman, a Hungarian Jewess living through the Holocaust, has brought to life on social media.

(photo credit: Courtesy)

Wehrmacht soldiers marching through a city center, swastika banners festooning central boulevards, and locals flying the Nazi flag are just some of the images from a documentary about the short life of Eva Heyman, who was murdered in the Holocaust, which will be posted on Instagram and Facebook on Holocaust Memorial Day this Thursday.The central feature of the initiative, called the Eva Project, is a 50-minute movie based on the life and experiences of Heyman, a 13-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl who kept a rich and poignant diary of the terrifying times in which she lived and died.Throughout May 1 and 2, vignettes of the movie depicting crucial incidents in Heyman's account will be posted on the Internet to bring her story to a 21st century audience in a format that forcefully and jarringly brings to life the reality of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe.Conceived and funded by businessman Mati Kochavi and his daughter Maya, the film depicts dozens of incidents from Heyman's diary, including her dream to become a photojournalist, and her romantic hopes and relationships. The film progresses to relate the progressing nightmare of Jews in Hungary during the war, and how Heyman's world was shattered by the Nazi occupation of Hungary in March 1944. By May, the 21,333 Jews of her Transylvanian city, then known as Nagyvárad in Hungarian and Groysvardeyn in Yiddish but today called Oradea in Romanian, were forced into a cramped and unsanitary ghetto. Deportations began on May 24."Dear diary, you are the luckiest one in the world, because you cannot feel, you cannot know what a terrible thing has happened to us. The Germans have come!" wrote Heyman in her entry for March 19, 1944 as the Nazis occupied Nagyvárad.

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Two months later Eva was deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered in October 1944, according to Yad Vashem. Her diary ends shortly before she was deported. Her mother, who survived the Holocaust, discovered the document in Nagyvárad in 1945 after liberation.The movie depicts many of the events recorded in Heyman's diary, documenting the progressively direr situation she found herself in, and finally portrays her on the cattle car in which she was deported to Auschwitz."Dear diary, I don't want to die; I want to live even if it means that I'll be the only person here allowed to stay." she wrote on May 30, just before she was deported."I can't write anymore, dear diary. The tears run from my eyes," were the last words she penned.Some 400 people, including a Ukrainian production team and British cast, were involved in the making the film, which was shot in Lviv, Ukraine over the course of nine days. Tanks, armored personnel carriers, command cars and train carriages were employed as props to make the movie realistic.The film cost several million dollars although the Kochavis are not revealing the exact cost of the production.According to Maya Kochavi, one of the principal goals of the project is to increase consciousness and knowledge of the Holocaust amongst the younger generation, Jews and non-Jews alike, and social media felt like the best way to achieve this, she said.Kochavi said that both Jews and non-Jews are "disconnected" from the events of the Holocaust, a situation exacerbated by the fact that the last generation of survivors will soon no longer be around to tell their story.This, she said, is a problem for both the Jewish community and non-Jews as well. Many of those disconnected from what transpired during the Holocaust believe the genocide to be "fake news" or greatly exaggerated, she said."As the survivors are dwindling in numbers, it is very hard to convey the magnitude of the Holocaust to the new generation. The strongest way is to sit with someone who went through it, and to not have advantage of witnesses who survived is very troubling to the Jewish community," she said."We thought about how we can get our audience to listen to and understand the Holocaust, to make it personal and tangible, and that's when the idea of social media came in," she said."The concept is to try and make the new generation feel like it is in the Holocaust, that they are experiencing it, that it is happening through their point of view, and Instagram is like a magical tool for us to do this."Learn about the March of the Living.

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Diary of a Holocaust-era teenager Eva Heyman brought to life on Instagram

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The film progresses to relate the progressing nightmare of Jews in Hungary during the war, and how Heyman's world was shattered by the Nazi occupation of Hungary in March 1944