Name of Exhibit: Eva’s Embroidery
Submitted by: Miriam (pseudonym)
Date of Origin: Unknown
Description: An embroidered cloth with my cousin, Evike “Eva” Fisch’s initials, F.E. In Hungary, the surname comes first. Eva was a very hard-working girl and would often run the office of her parents’ construction material plant. She was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944 and died of typhoid fever shortly after the camp was liberated on April 15th, 1945. She was only sixteen years old. Her embroidery is the only object that remains from her short life.
Voyage to Ottawa: I found it one day when I was looking through boxes in my home in Ottawa. I most likely got it from my aunt, Margit Fisch.
