Eugenics Then and Now – Vera Sharav


On the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav warned of the countless parallels between today’s world and the one she miraculously escaped as a child. The result is a documentary, which we offer here in the English original so that everyone can hear this extraordinary woman.

Archive footage and other voicesIt was the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg Code. It took place right in the middle of the Covid pandemic.

Vera SharavThese last two years have been particularly stressful because they brought back painful memories for me. In 1941 my family was deported from Romania to Ukraine. We were crammed into a concentration camp, essentially left to starve to death. Death was everywhere, looming over us. My father died inside the camp of typhus, which was the infectious disease rampant in all the concentration camps and ghettos because of the terrible sanitary conditions. In 1944, while the Final Solution was being aggressively pursued, Romania broke away from its alliance with Nazi Germany and allowed several hundred orphaned Jewish children to return to Romania if they still had relatives there. Even though I wasn't an orphan, my mother lied to save my life. I boarded a cattle train, the same train that kept transporting Jews to the extermination camps.

Source: OVALmedia, “Eugenics Then and Now – Vera Sharav”. Transcript and translations: OVALmedia.

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