Tributes for museum volunteer

Holocaust survivor Eva Brown – a longtime Sydney Jewish Museum volunteer, passed away last week, aged 87.

Brown was six months old when her parents fled Germany in early 1939, just months after the deadly pogroms and burning of shules that occurred on Kristallnacht – the Night of Broken Glass – throughout that country, Austria, and the Sudetenland.

They ended up safely in British North Borneo, where her father practised as a doctor, and her mother as a nurse, but became prisoners of war when Japanese forces invaded.

After liberation, Brown was billeted with a family in Sydney, where she attended St Catherine’s primary school as a boarder. Several years later, the family moved to Gladesville, where Brown attended Riverside Girls’ High School, and was elected as school captain in her final year there.

She married Harold Brown and they had three children, David, Michael and Lisa.