ROMANIA
Our most difficult trip (see: Ted’s confiscated license) but so rewarding. We stayed in Cluj, where Eva and Miriam lived for a few years after liberation, but the highlights were the daytrips to their tiny hometown of Portz. Eva was greeted like a returning hero by the mayor and with heavy emotions by former neighbors. Most moving for us: Interviewing Eva in the little schoolhouse where the twins — the only Jews in the school — were brutally picked on; walking with Eva down the street where her family was carted out of town on the way to Auschwitz; and interviewing Eva’s best childhood friend, Luci, who broke down at the memories. Really something.
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Eva’s childhood best friend, Luci Pasca, heartbreakingly recalls the day the Hungarian Nazis paraded Eva and her family through their tiny hometown of Portz, Romania.
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In her childhood schoolhouse, Eva recounts how she and twin Miriam were viciously bullied by classmates and teachers.
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Looking down on Eva’s hometown, picturesque Portz, Romania.
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Mika Brown and Vinnie Manganello prepare to fly the drone over Eva’s hometown.
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Eva and members of her tour enjoy a traditional Romanian meal prepared by the mayor’s wife.
