Born in Vienna she fled to Latvia after the Kristallnacht subsequent to the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany in the hope of getting a visa for the US . After the German invasion of Russia in 1941 she and her family were transported by the Russians to a Gulag in deep Siberia , followed by another one to Kazakhstan in 1943 . She built up a new existence in Melbourne following her liberation in 1947 . Eva describes the story of her life in her book '' A Patchwork Life ''
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Eva Marks