Eva Anna Braun Biography

Decent Essays
Eva Anna Paula Braun was born February sixth 1912 in Munich, Germany. She is the middle child of Franziska “fanny” Kronberger, who worked as a seamstress, and Friedrich “fritz” Braun, a school teacher. Eva had an elder sister, Ilse born in 1909 and younger sister, Margarete born in 1915. Eva was educated at a Catholic school in Munich, and then spent one year at a business school in the Convent of the English Sisters in Simbach am Inn. After that she took a job working for Heinrich Hoffmann, a photographer for the Nazi Party, becoming a personal photographer for Adolf Hitler. After the suicide death of Adolfs niece, Raubal, he started to pay more attention to Eva. Eva herself then tries committing suicide by shooting herself in the chest

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Lastly, when she was split up between her sister when they were put with foster families. Edith was only 11 years old when the holocaust changed her life forever. The first climactic part of Edith Goldberg's life is when she witnessed her father and uncle being taken away by two Gestapo men. “During Kristallnacht, in November 1938, plainclothes police came for her father and uncle in the middle of the night and took them away,” (Edith and her Adoptive Family: Edith Goldberg).…

    • 542 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    She first starts by describing Himmler’s life as he was struggling as a boy. How boys are supposed to be masculine, but he was not. His brother stronger than him because he was sick from an illness that weakened him. Griffin’s states that, “As an infant, stricken by influenza, he came close to perishing and his body still retains the mark of illness” (243). It was difficult for him to grow as a young boy.…

    • 1625 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Irene Fogel Weiss Thesis

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Irene Fogel Weiss was born in Batrad, Ukraine in 1930. She lived in a small town in Czechoslovakia. It's population consisted of about 1,000 farming families and 10 Jewish families. When Irene was only 8 years old, her town was split and became a part of Hungary. By that time, the Hungarians had allied with the Nazis.…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the Jewish Women Archives, it says, “Gerda Weissmann, the second child of Julius Weissmann and Helene Mueckenbrunn Weissmann, was born on May 8, 1924” (Gerda). According to the Jewish Women Archives, Gerda had her mom, dad and her older brother go into the Holocaust with her (Gerda).…

    • 510 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The only family he had were his Dad Simcha, His Mom Gisele, and his sisters Eva and Leah. On May 21, 1942, Alfred’s father was ordered to report to a German labor camp but evaded the order by checking himself into the hospital for a hernia operation. By September it became apparent that the entire family would need to go into hiding. Simcha faked a suicide attempt in order to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. Meanwhile, Gisele sold the family’s possessions and settled her children with friends and neighbors before joining Simcha at the hospital as an assistant in the hospital.(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.…

    • 563 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He was born April 28, 1908 Oskar saw the horrible, horrid, horrific and horrendous actions that Germany was taking on the…

    • 442 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Suzanne Spaak lived in Paris, France, and was a member of the French Resistance during World War Two to stand up against Hitler's power and save Jews. As a mother of two she had abandoned her family, her husband and children’s lives because she wanted to stand up to the power of Hitler and save as many Jews that she could possibly save. When she had done this she had left her husband as a dad to take care of two children which he did not know who would take care of them because he had to go work for these little…

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Abram Korn

    • 1222 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The German government made the Hungarian round up Jewish families and deport them to Auschwitz. Irene and her family – her parents and 5 siblings – were sent to Mukacs ghetto, then rode cattle carts to Auschwitz. She did not understand what they had done to deserve their fate. As soon as they arrived, the family was separated, with her mother and two brothers being sent to gas chambers. Meanwhile Irene and her sister, Serena, were sent to slave labor.…

    • 1222 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    She was born in Romania in 1953, and was a minority because her native language is German. Muller’s father was a part of Hitler's Waffen SS, and her mother was deported to Russia to work as free labor. As a young writer, she openly criticized communist dictatorship which had negative responses from the government. She has written a handful of books, with most being translated into over twenty languages. Many of her works were censored in Romania because they often contained disapproval of the communist party.…

    • 924 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Pride And Betrayal In Sula

    • 1156 Words
    • 5 Pages

    She was still for a moment and then threw her head back and laughed.” (Morrison, page 36). It’s sad how BoyBoy was able to run away from his troubles and Eva had to take the fall for the…

    • 1156 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    daughter of Otto and Edith Frank, younger sibling to Margot Frank. Franks move to Amsterdam when Hitler…

    • 421 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    She introduces many new people and tells about their lives and how she was affected from them. This shows another way of how she strengthens her writing because she backs it up with facts and evidence from stories and people. The Callous and Heinrich Himmler’s boyhood was a big part of the essay and Griffin tells of how he grew up to become the chief architect of Jewish genocide and also command Nazi. Griffin relates this to her own hard, childhood and depressing family life. In between these strands of stories are italic passages on cell biology.…

    • 1996 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The essay “Our Secret” is largely autobiographical; Griffin makes her point about children and family by comparing Himmler’s life and childhood to her own. Early in “Our Secret” it is effortless to see that Heinrich Himmler is nothing more than a marionette that his father controls. It seems…

    • 728 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    On balance, I did not”, indicating that she had Kevin because her husband wanted a family. Shriver also shows Eva as an omniscient third person narrator, making it hard for readers to like her personality. D. Lodge states that ‘an unreliable “omniscient” narrator is almost a contradiction… [and] only occur in a very deviant, experimental text’ which is true to Shriver’s presentation of Eva. Eva’s omniscient personality is…

    • 1156 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Brilliant Essays

    Borderline Personality In Hitler

    • 3154 Words
    • 13 Pages
    • 6 Works Cited

    His sister recalled how awkward he was with her as a child. “He was eleven and she perhaps five, Adolf was wildly terrified at the thought of a girl, even a little girl, might kiss him. That the feeling went beyond repugnance small boys allege for girls, especially their sisters.” She noted that he would jump out of bed to avoid her kisses.…

    • 3154 Words
    • 13 Pages
    • 6 Works Cited
    Brilliant Essays