Eva Bunzlau, long time Stamford CT resident, passed away peacefully at her home on Nov. 21st, just 17-days prior to what would have been her 104th birthday. Born in Berlin Germany, she was the only child of a prosperous Jewish family & lived an idyllic life until the rise of Adolf Hitler, when they were forced out of their home & her father's business was disrupted by the Nazis. Her nuclear family escaped Berlin in 1939 & went to live in Shanghai, the last place to offer them asylum. They were able toa to purchase a tiny house with no indoor plumbing and began a small business from the house. Eva & her family remained in Shanghai for 10-years during which she married an Austrian refugee & worked for international companies & the postwar US Army. Following a 2-year wait in Brazil for entry to the US, she & her husband joined her parents in NYC in 1951. Eva lost several family members in the concentration camps and suffered the loss of her husband within just a few years of arriving in NY but built a strong coterie of friends who became her adopted family. Eva forged a successful career in the steel industry, retiring in the 1980s. Subsequently, she worked in real estate sales, taught English to corporate executives, volunteered at Literacy Volunteers & gave free English lessons in her home to immigrants from around the world well into her late 80s. Eva's love of art, music, & travel took her to the world's greatest Museums, opera houses and concert halls in the US and abroad. Her passion for hiking & swimming led to trips to many National Parks & made living near LI Sound her great joy. Eva's life was a story of strength, bravery, resilience, intelligence and a great love for democracy and her adopted country.

Eva will be missed by her many friends here and across Europe as well as the relatives of her late husband.