Eva Ostwalt

Eva Ostwalt (or "Oswalt") (born 1902 in Cologne) is a survivor of the Holocaust.

Eva Ostwalt was born into a Jewish mercantile family in Cologne, the eldest of three daughters. During the Second World War, she was forced to work for Siemens in a camp next to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She lost her mother in Auschwitz and her daughter during the bombing of Dresden. She barely survived. In 1947, she married her second husband Heinz Ostwalt and they soon emigrated to the USA.cite news |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien-news/;art15532,2500597 |title=Ein Jahrhundert Lebenswille: "Mit 103 in Amerika“: Nach Nazizeit und KZ-Haft wanderte Eva Ostwalt von Köln nach Washington aus |date=2008-03-26 |work=Tagesspiegel |accessdate=2008-10-06] cite news |url=http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2008/03/26/861926.html |title=Mit 103 in Amerika: Mehrere Jahre lang begleitete die Kamera Eva Ostwalt, die nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg mit ihrem Mann ausgewandert ist.|author=Mundzeck, Heike |date=2008-03-26 |work=Hamburger Abendblatt |accessdate=2008-10-06]

In a TV documentary, "Lust am Leben - mit 103 in Amerika" by Michael Marton, aired in Germany on WDR, her everyday life was shown. She lives on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. At the age of 105, Ostwalt is still able to drive and use a computer. It becomes apparent that the Holocaust is still sometimes on her mind. Even over 60 years after the dreadful happenings in Germany, Eva Ostwalt rather does not want her neighbours to know that she is originally Jewish. Marton is preparing a longer version in English, to be entitled "“To Live - what else!".cite web |url=http://www.michaelmarton.com/site/RESUME.html |title=RESUME |format= |work=michaelmarton.com |accessdate=2008-10-06]

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*cite book |author=Schroeder-Hildebrand, Dagmar |title=Ich sterbe vor Hunger!: Kochrezepte aus dem Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück |publisher=Donat |location=|year=1999 |pages= |isbn=393173787X|url=http://www.studgen.uni-mainz.de/sose99/schwerp2/expose/schroed.htm |oclc= |doi= |accessdate= Biography of Eva Ostwalt