IF YOU HEARD WHAT SCOTT “SCOOTER” BRAUN HEARD

SCOTT “SCOOTER” BRAUN SHARES THE STORY OF HIS PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, EVA WOHLBERG BRAUN. EVA WAS BORN IN 1931 TO A LOVING AND LARGE EXTENDED FAMILY IN HAJDÚSZOBOSZLÓ, HUNGARY.

AT THE START OF THE WAR, EVA WAS KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL BECAUSE SHE WAS JEWISH. NOT LONG AFTER, ALL OF THE JEWS IN THEIR TOWN, INCLUDING EVA AND HER FAMILY, WERE FORCED TO MOVE INTO A GHETTO FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, BEFORE BEING DEPORTED TO THE CONCENTRATION CAMP, AUSCHWITZ. IT WAS AT AUSCHWITZ WHERE EVA WAS SEPARATED FROM HER PARENTS AND YOUNGER SISTER AGNES. AFTER MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVING UNIMAGINABLE CIRCUMSTANCES THERE, EVA WAS SENT TO A FORCED LABOR CAMP, AND THEN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP, BERGEN BELSEN. EVA WAS LIBERATED FROM BERGEN BELSEN, AND RETURNED TO HUNGARY TO LOOK FOR ANY SURVIVING FAMILY MEMBERS. IT WAS THERE SHE REUNITED WITH HER UNCLES, AND NOT LONG AFTER, SHE MET THE MAN WHO WOULD BECOME HER HUSBAND, JOSEPH BRAUN, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR WHO SURVIVED THE HORRORS OF DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP.

TOGETHER, THEY STARTED REBUILDING THEIR LIVES IN HUNGARY, WITH EVA GIVING BIRTH TO THEIR DAUGHTER AGNES AND SOON AFTER, THEIR SON ERVIN (SCOTT’S FATHER). IT WASN’T LONG BEFORE CONDITIONS IN HUNGARY BECAME DANGEROUS AS UNREST AND COMMUNISM TOOK OVER.

AFTER SURVIVING ANOTHER WAR, THEY MADE THEIR WAY TO THE U.S., BUILT A BEAUTIFUL LIFE, AND A STRONG FAMILY THAT CONTINUES TO GROW AND THRIVE TODAY.

IF YOU HEARD WHAT SCOTT HEARD, YOU WOULD NEVER FORGET.