Eva Smit (* 1939) was born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam. The threat to Jews increased after the German occupation and Eva’s grandparents, uncles and aunts fled to France. Eva and her nine-year-old brother Hans were taken by their parents to the NV resistance group in South Limburg, which found shelter for a total of 250 children. Eva and Hans were hidden separately. Eva had the good fortune to be sheltered by the Bockma family, where her youth and the family’s seven children insulated her from the war, and she felt very much at home. Her father, mother and two eldest brothers were betrayed, arrested and deported to Poland where they were all murdered. After liberation in 1945, Eva’s aunt Deborah took in the six-year-old girl, raising her in Amsterdam – but the relationship was strained and unloving. Smit went on to study journalism and made her career as an author, director, editor and presenter for TV and radio productions. She also continued to search for her brother Hans, and with the help of the Red Cross she found him in 1995 – the two had been separated for 43 years.