„Ich war Eva Diamant“: Book Presentation & Conversation with Stephanie Lunkewitz
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Eva Diamant was twelve years old when the Soviet army liberated her in Auschwitz in January 1945. Together with illustrator Stephanie Lunkewitz and accompanied by expressive images, she tells her moving story of survival in this book. It is the story of a sheltered childhood in a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, of initial exclusion at school, her escape from Hungary, the loss of her father, mother, and brother, and finally her deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp. But it is also a story of love, friendship, and support.
Stephanie Lunkewitz, author, illustrator of the book, and board director of the Wende Museum, Los Angeles, presents the book in conversation with Benno Herz, program director of the Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles.
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Stephanie Lunkewitz was born in Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt, in 1977 and grew up in a family of artists. Her grandparents were members of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and illustrated more than 50 children's books. Lunkewitz received her degree in design from Burg Giebichenstein University and then studied art history at J. W. Goethe University and picture book writing and business at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lunkewitz lives in Los Angeles with her three children and her husband. On Instagram @stephanielunkewitz, she portrays the poor and the rich of this world on a weekly basis. Her illustrated children's books “TORO,” “ANTON DAS ZEBRAPFERD,” and “ICH WAR EVA DIAMANT” have been published in German. Lunkewitz is a board director of the Wende Museum in Los Angeles and a member of the executive committee of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature.
Benno Herz is the Program Director at the Thomas Mann House Los Angeles. He is co-editor and co-author of the publications Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles: Stories from Exile 1940-1952 (2022) and Das Thomas Mann House – Politischer Denkort am Pazifik (2023). Herz is a lecturer at UCLA, teaching classes on German-speaking émigrés in Los Angeles, and covers related topics for international media outlets such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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In Zusammenarbeit mit Lettrétage.
