Eva Dutton was born in 1925, as the daughter of Jakob and Rosa Rosenfeld. In the 1920's her father bought a mill in Neusiedl am See, before this they had lived for a short time in the mother's home town of Antau. Eva visited the convent school in Neusiedl and had a carefree childhood. After this she changed to a boarding school in Vienna. After the taking of power by the Nazis, her parents fleed from Neusiedl to Vienna. An aunt from Sopron organized their escape to Hungary. They found accomodation on the aunt's country estate. Eva visited a monastery school in Sopron up till her A levels. After the Nazis marched into Hungary she and her parents together with other Jews from Sopron were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated from her father on arrival, she was able to stay together with her mother. Only by sheer coincidence were they then able to stay together, on the transport 6 weeks later to a labour camp in Allendorf in Germany, where they were forced to work for the war industry. From this time on she and her mother heard no more news from her father. Towards the end of the war the labour camp was evacuated by the Nazis. Eva was able to flee during this long march and kept herself hidden until the American troops came. She found her mother soon after. Only after the war did they find out about her father's death in Dachau, where he had died three weeks before the liberation. A french prisoner of war friend took Eva with him to France. In Paris she began working for the American Army, and some time later she went to relatives in New York. In 1948 she visited her mother in Austria, who had meanwhile returned to Vienna. She married her husband Willfried in 1956, and moved with him first to Venezuela and later to England.