What would have happened if a girl had had Instagram in the Holocaust?

He wrote his journal from February 1944 to May of the same year. She was deported to Auschwitz where she was a victim of Nazi atrocities against the Jews. Eva Heyman is considered the "Anne Frank from Eastern Europe". And now, through an Instagram profile, they will tell the story of this Hungarian girl who was murdered at 13 years old.

The initiative is launched as part of Memorial Day of the Holocaust, which is commemorated this Thursday, May 2nd in Israel. These stories they will remember the life of Eve but also that of six million jews killed in the Holocaust. The promoter and the director is the Israeli businessman Matti Kochavi.

History of Evas It is based on the diary of this girl who tells the last months of her life and who is promoted with the motto: "What would have happened if a girl had had Instagram in the Holocaust?".

Eva Heyman was 13 years old when she started writing her diary, but she was able to finish it only a few months before Nazi Germany invaded Hungary and was deported in May 1944 to Auschwitz, where she was murdered in October. The project has already generated a lot of interest: one day before its publication, the account already has nearly 400,000 subscribers.

"Anne Frank from Eastern Europe"

He was born on February 13, 1931. His parents divorced very young. His mother remarried and moved to Budapest. The baby grew up with his grandparents, a middle-clbad Jewish family who owned a small pharmacy in Oradea, Nagyvárad.

Eva Heyman is for the city of Oradea what Anne Frank This is for Amsterdam: two Jewish teenagers, each writing and keeping a diary, while the world has changed following the Nazi occupation. Both died in a concentration camp: Eva in Auschwitz and Ana in Bergen-Belsen. But the two newspapers they are very different.

Eva's diary is short but very intense. She did not live hiding like Ana, she lived the daily life of the city and the dehumanization that gradually her family and herself are suffering. However, Anne Frank is known around the world and Eva's story is now presented for the first time in this Instagram profile. His diary is also translated into Spanish.