Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke shares her story 70 years after the liberation of Auschwitz
Services are being held across the region to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. It is 71 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
Today, talks will be held at Durham Cathedral and Newcastle University. A special candle lit service will take place in Morpeth.
Among the speakers will be survivor Eva Clarke. She will be talking about her experiences at Newcastle University.
Eva's birth was traumatic. Eva weighed just three pounds when she was born, her mother Anka Bergman weighted five stone. Eva is one of three people still living to have been born in a Nazi concentration camp.
Anka had been a student in Prague. She married Eva's father, Bernd Nathan, in 1940. When the Nazis sent him to Auschwitz she followed. She was pregnant with Eva at the time. But she never saw Eva's father again - he was shot just a few days before the camp was liberated.
In 1945 Anka was transported in a coal truck to Mauthausen: a notorious concentration camp in Austria. It was there that she gave birth to Eva.
After the war ended and the camps were liberated, Anka remarried, and she, Eva, and Eva's stepfather made a new life in the UK.