@@LottiDotti76 Nothing wrong with having high standards. If the Titanic had been built and staffed with high standards in mind it likely wouldn't have sank and more people would have survived could have survived. So the way I see it, you just issued a compliment. Thanks.
I admire this generation..those who were so intellectual as this woman had to learn without the ease of technology or conveniences...I admire my grandmother's story telling in the same way
Those are the things that I have always admired from people born in a decent and cultured era with values and principles, what a pity that there are hardly any more people like that
@@ultimatesunrise not just that, but also the splitting of the ship, the music the band played, and other details. All of the survivors have different versions.
It really is sad. It happens with the Holocaust and 9/11 all the time too. Granted, survivors obviously don't know all the little details behind the scenes of how it happened, but we gotta respect their firsthand experience.
Never served in the Navy, huh? Me either. But I did have the fortunate experience to work on board a Navy warship. I was a network engineer and we were there on contract to solve a few issues on a recent upgrade they had troubles with. I spent three weeks on a ship and every single one of those sailors would have laid down their lives in defense of that floating hunk of steel. The ship was Mother to them, their Captain, Father. Really interesting experience.
i bet her father fought like hell to survive once he was left on the ship, and must have felt some solace that he had successfully gotten his child and wife to safety.
Yes. But he also died hearing his wife's months of warnings in his head over and over again. That is tragic to me. To think of dying knowing you would still be alive had you listened to your "silly-acting" wife. 😔
@Sug Ma obviously you would still probably go, but it's unlikely that it wouldn't have been on his mind that if he *had* taken her seriously, he'd still be with his family
Exactly. The father didn’t heed his wife’s warnings, and only *he* would pay for it in the end. He was likely terrified to die, but his family wouldn’t join him in death. That’s all the difference in the world.
@@kellyolson1952 yes well he couldn't convince Bruce Ismay to have more lifeboats who was the CEO of The White Star Line. In fact Mr. Ismay reduced the number of boats as long as he was still within the legal limits of the British Board of Trade. However, apart from boats there were other issues such as not enough lifeboat training by the crew. Uncertainly as to the capacity of the boats, and this false sense of security that the Titanic was herself a lifeboat.
"there was no need for anyone to have died"" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes indeed. I liked it when she continued with great conviction >>> "One life is worth more than the whole ship, surely."
And now it’s added 5 more to the many in it’s graveyard, for the victims of Titan that wanted to look at it, just leave it alone!! R.I.P. to all Titanic & Titan victims 🕊
I met another survivor back in 1977 when as a teenager I was working in a toy department in a shop in Ealing West London. An old lady dressed in black came in and looked up at a shelf displaying an Airfix model we were selling and burst into tears. I asked her what was wrong and she pointed at the Kit Model of the Titanic and asked me why the store was allowed to sell such a thing and she explained that she had been on the Titanic when it sunk. Poor woman she was so terribly upset. It left a lasting memory with me.
It makes one think about the appropriateness of some toys. Particularly the ones linked to violence. Especially the extremely graphic video games available today!
@@andiemorgan961 yes indeed.... neighbour's granddaughter was just raped and strangled here on a university campus in Ontario- reports of other attacks on university campuses- where is all this violence coming from???
@@johnchampagne8013 she was 7 . Not an infant 😂. Certainly old enough to recall such a terribly tragic and traumatic event vividly . Also living through both world wars . What a woman
“So you remember the silence? The whole world stood still that night. Once the lights was gone, the ship was gone, the sound was gone .. it was dreadful “🥺 Wow Miss Eva Hart 🙏🏼💐
8:41 "I saw that ship break in half". There's something haunting about that. Listening to an actual survivor who witnessed the most terrifying moments of that night really makes the history resonate and vibrate.
And the fact those who said they saw it break in half where discredited for a long time until the titanic was found at which it actually showed it indeed did break in half
I thought I was the only one who felt it was haunting pour women and all the others on the titanic so many people lost their life’s and the third class had a low chance cause they were deep within the ship 🥺😢
I still wonder why Lightholler in his book didn't mention such an important fact. Surely the very ship breaking in half wouldn't have escaped his attention, or the whole commotion due to it.
@@Amory98 Some, but not all of the survivors recalled it break, maybe because it was so dark. It was only when the wreck was discovered in 1985 that the breakup was confirmed.
In James Cameron's Titanic theres a scene where a father says to his daughters "It's goodbye for a little while, only for a little while. There will be another boat for the daddies , this boat is for the mummies and the children" => This is what Eva Heart heard a father say to his kids as he lead them to the lifeboat she was in . Right after that the same character says " You hold on on mommy's hand and be a good little girl" => That's what Eva Hart's own father told her as the lifeboat was leaving the ship. Idk the fact that this line of dialogue actually comes from real people is just so sad.
That's the great thing most don't realize about Cameron's Titanic. Most everything happening around Jack and Rose and their storyline is in there for a reason. Cameron made sure to pay close attention and include as much as he could with what was factually known to have happened at the time.
🥺 I remember that exact scene. Titanic is my favorite movie of all times. And now learning that this little girl is now this strong woman whom lived through event after event.
It might be have been somewhat changed since Eva was an only child and there were 2 kids in the scene the father was talking to. But yes it seems like it’s based on Eva’s father. RIP to all who perished and survived.
Eva Harts mother had 9 children and ALL had died. She meets and marries her 2nd husband and has 1 child named Eva Hart. Father takes them onto the Titanic and mother is desperately worried and begs him to not go. She pleads to sleep ONLY during the day and stay up all night worried and feeling doomed that something tragic is going to happen. 4 days later the Titanic strikes the iceberg and SHE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING. AMAZING STORY
Her attitude is so wonderfully staunch and "British" right up to the moment she begins talking about her last moments with her father before he put her in the lifeboat with her mother, and then later realizing that she would never see him again. And then you can see the pain begin to creep in, and almost immediately her testimony becomes far more personal and opinionated. What a powerful and poignant interview, and what a life lived.
Can you imagine being called a liar when you told about how the ship broke in half? She had no reason to lie. 🤦 Bless her heart. She had been through so much.
So no one is gonna talk about how she said, "And I remember that meal so well because that was the last meal the three of us ever had together." If I hadn't just woken up 5 minutes ago I would be in tears from listening to that. edit: By the way the one dislike is from the iceberg.
It’s off-topic, but it’s similar to Jewish males who “came of age” during the Holocaust, then went back to a concentration camp decades later for their Bar Mitzvah. Some think they are foolish/crazy/silly to go back to a place where “so much death happened,” but the celebrant always says, “this is the last place my family was together, i can feel them here.”
If only she knew people wld still be listening to her interview 30 yrs later. What a brave woman. She spoke of such peronal emotional things yet didnt shed a single tear. Rest in peace Ms Eva. Hope you, your mummy and daddy have found each other in heaven ❤
Eva passed away in February of 1996 (London). What an amazing testimony to watch and listen to. Her memory was so sharp even all those years later being on the Titanic as a 7 year old child. 🌹
The fact that her mom had a dreadful premonition is remarkable. She stayed up all night on the titanic! But slept just fine on they way back. Wow Mother knew best her intuition was keen 😧
I think it’s so disrespectful that people would argue with a literal survivor (who can fully recount the whole event) whether or not the ship broke in half. And White Star had a nasty role in that too after the disaster when they denied the breaking up of the ship in order to preserve the reputation of their company.
There were other survivors who believed that the ship went down intact. Second Officer Charles Lightoller believed that Titanic went down intact. It was a matter of the difference in where you were. Lightoller was stoop on Titanic when she went down and couldn’t see the “big picture”.
The missing submersible Titan has resurrected my interest in the Titanic, and this woman was an absolute treat to listen to. RIP to this great lady and to all the people who either died that night or later. And Godspeed to the people searching for Titan.
8:58 - I find it absolutely fascinating that she says that the stern of the Titanic "keeled over", and shows the motion with her hands... - The movie shows the stern upright in the water for ( as she says ), "quite a long time" but then sinks straight down... Instead of "keeling over" - I'm really grateful that Eva has described exactly what she saw, because it helps us visualise exactly how the ship sunk that night, so long ago.
It makes me happy to know this woman was so intelligent to leave a record on video of her experience. She said she was the only one who could remember it and i felt like jumping into the video, hug her and congratulate her for leaving this testimony. She probably never thought it would be so well preserved and even easily watchable by anyone in the world
I believe I had read somewhere that there was a male survivor (I imagine he must have been a little boy at the time of the sinking) who had to eventually move from where he lived near a stadium or ballpark because the crowd roar reminded him of the sound of the people drowning as the ship sank and afterward. My blood ran cold when I read that.
There was also a Japanese man that survived and when he got back home to Japan they basically ostracized him for not following the women and children first rule
That gave me chills like no other interview. The moment she mentions her mother, along with other women, looking for their husbands after they were picked up at sea, just floored me.
In my opinion her account is probably the most accurate of all. She was a child old enough to see witness and remember exactly as things transpired without the usual embellishments more typical of adults.
Man..... I wish I could hear her talk for hours. What a life she had. I feel that through her heartbreak, in the articulate way she shares it, we can all benefit from her perspective and her wisdom. Not just about the Titanic, but about everything really.
I agree. I mean its scary that she could of lost her life along her with her parents but im glad she survived. Unfortunately she did pass away a month before i was born. She died from cancer 😭 God bless her soul. 🙏🏻💖
Very strong and interesting lady. I think her stoicism was really part of that generation. So many of them lived through such terrible times and didn't have counselling. I doubt that the younger generations would have been so strong.
@@michaelmontagu3979 Absolutely agree it was a characteristic of that period. I can remember my great grandparents (part of the "greatest generation") having a similar "suck it up" mentality, same goes for my grandparents. I can only imagine they learned it from their parents.
@@neverforever4787 You are absolutely right. My father, born in 1915, had part of his leg blown away when covering the escape from Dunkirk. He was a prisoner of war until 1945, so had no prosthetic until then. He never grumbled about it and still swam and was as active as possible. If anyone asked him about it he would say that he was lucky as his sergeant had his head blown off.
You know, it sounds like she sadly has some ptsd regarding the music, the return journey and pictures of ships! These interviews are probably very hard for her to do. She can talk about it but it probably takes a lot to prepare for it. she lost her father that night. It must be sad too, for Titanic survivors to see so many people profit from the event that shaped their lives for the worse and took their loved ones.
The fact that she still deliberately distinguishes that as a 7 year old her realization was 1. that he wasn't coming after me AND 2. that I'd never see him again.... Even at that age, she didn't even have the hope, or the coping mechanism of thinking, "Well, maybe he'll get on a different life boat after he helps other people?"
Just WOW! The putting the children in bags and then them being placed in nets - separated from their parents in the dark and cold with all this chaos, just WOW! That, the “everyone could have survived”, and the “hearing people drowning”, and knowing her dad was on the ship that was sinking is just some of the most dreadful things I’ve heard! My God!!
@@edenstar196 exactly! Like I rewound that 3 times & then imagined what this would have been like and was BAFFLED this was my first time hearing of this and WHY isn’t there a whole segment or documentary just on how children were evacuated. This is mind blowing!
I don’t think most people really think about how terrifying this experience must have been, even with rescue. Those in the boats were waiting in the middle of the ocean in the dark of night for hours, no lights other than the stars, frigidly cold, no communication with the ship that was en route to rescue them, no certainty of rescue at all. Those women who had to have known that their husbands and fathers were dead in those icy black waters, it’s impossible to imagine their devastation.
One of White Star Line's ship SS Atlantic hit rocks in 1873 and it rolled over in the sea when it was sinking. Passengers had to actually sit there and wait on the side of the ship as waves washed people down.
Don't think we realise how priceless her testimony is. We know things we couldn't possibly know that the ice burg strike felt like a train pulling into a station. One couldn't have possibly guess that.
Watching this in the aftermath of the Titan implosion. What a remarkable lady Eva Hart was, with her astonishingly clear and riveting account of her memories of Titanic. How surreal that her father and all the other lost souls of that fateful disaster, are now joined by 5 more - some 111 years later. I’m getting chills just thinking of the enormity of that. May they all RIP 🙏
Watching this the day they anounced the titan sub imploded just off the bow of the titanic. Ironic how she says "no one had to die ifvthey just had enough life boats". People have always cut corners at the potential expense of human life. What a species we are.
I cannot imagine the sheer terror of being in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean in the middle of the night and seeing that enormous vessel rise up out of the water and break in half, amidst all the screams no doubt. That is mind boggling. Eva Heart is a remarkable story teller. May she rest in peace, reunited with her father. I have to say props to the men who put their wives and children on those life boats. It must have been terrifying to put them over the side of the ship in the middle of the night not even knowing if the thing would actually sink.
the scariest thing that the movies never show enough is just how very dark it was. It wasn't clear to everyone that the ship broke in half because once the lights went out, all they would have seen was this huge silhouette of a ship against the backdrop of the starry night
Incredible footage! I could listen to this woman for hours upon hours. It blows my mind to think she was actually on the Titanic and saw the ship break in half. It makes me realize that time goes by so fast... And the event of the Titanic sinking is only 3 or 4 generations away from our generation
I think about this video being filmed in 1993. I was alive then and old enough to have spoken with her and would have remembered it. Blows my mind a little.
@@mglangford82 I would have loved to have a chat with her. She was there. She saw it all that horrible night. I would have made a video . Amazing lady. (Jan Griffiths).
R.I.P. Eva. I wonder what she would have thought if she'd known that, 30 years later, people would be watching this on the Internet (which went public in 1993, the same year this was filmed). Judging by this interview, Eva had a strength of character and a spirit for life that I admire.
I watch this about once a year. I've always been fascinated with Titanic and have watched and read just about everything there is to on the subject. Eva Hart died on my birthday, 14th of February, and my daughter is called Eva. I didn't name her after Eva Hart but I'm glad she's got a name of a brilliant, strong woman. I've only just really picked up on the fact she calls herself a coward at one point, I know it was just a flippant remark and it's very much of her generation to think you have to show no fear or emotion but I wish she knew she wasn't a coward at all. Quite the opposite. She probably had undiagnosed ptsd and looking at photos of the ship going down, or drawings I should say, in books was a major trigger for her. Imagine being 7 and one night you suddenly get woken up from your sleep to be taken out into the freezing cold sea to watch the ship you've just been on, and your dad is still on, sink in the most violent way while there's people screaming and crying then having to listen to people drowning and trying to get into your boat. It's quite literally horror, that's true horror, not ghosts in films and stuff. I imagine you'd have nightmares for the rest of your life. I bet she would be mind blown to think there's people who are paying 250k to go down to the Titanic in a submersible all these years later. She's so right about one life being worth more than the entire ship. RIP Eva Hart and everyone who was on board that night.
What a wonderful lady! One life is worth more than a ship, it certainly is my darling. Loved how she continuously said there would have been no deaths had there been enough life boats, she is definitely holding people accountable that's for sure! And who can blame her.
It's especially easy to be angry when the White Starline never really took responsability - or real blame - for what happened. They even had the crew's families pay for their uniforms (in which they died?) because said uniforms were ranted for the trip...
I don't know if more life boats would've made much of a difference. They didn't even launch all the life boats they did have because there wasn't enough time. At first, many people didn't want to get in the boats because it was so cold out and they didn't realize the enormity of the crisis. I doubt the Californian could've sone much to help either - How would they have gotten 2000 people off Titanic, ferry them over, and then get them aboard the Californian in 2.5 hours? People climbing up and down rope ladders in the bitter cold in the middle of the night in the middle of the ocean would've been a very slow process and most people would've been in a state of panic. The ship was doomed and so were most of her passengers and crew.
@@bobbyheenan4061 The Titanic took about 2.5 hours to sink. That was plenty of time. The Titanic’s sister ship, The Britanic, sunk in less than 30 minutes and almost everyone on board survived. The only people to die during the sinking of the Britanic were those that got sucked into the ship’s propellers.
I just can’t even imagine the horror of that event. Being stuck on the dark cold water is a great fear of mine alone. But hearing the screams, the sounds of the ship breaking apart and sinking. Man the trauma of that would never go away. R.I.P. Eva Hart.
Such a beautiful woman. A miracle she survived this. Im so glad she had the chance to live a full life. I hope she was reunited with the spirit of her father in 1996. Goodbye Eva♥️
Her resilience is truly admirable!! Strong woman. I was born in 1993 when this interview took place. Wow. Crazy how she remembers everything in detail. Rest In Peace Eva
My kids often talk like that. After about 25, everything happened like it was yesterday. The more it hurts, the more time stands still. You will have your turn too, and I'm afraid your story will make this one look dull, for humanity finds itself in trouble once again. Life is constant chaos, but oddly still beautiful.
What a woman, what a magnificent lady.. Survived such a horror, went home straight away on the boat again, and just mentioning multiple times that no one could lose their life if there we're enough of life boats proves that she was a good, honest person. Rest in peace.
I think it’s so commendable that she refused to say the ship she saw was any particular ship cause she simply didn’t know and didn’t cave to others pressure to say it was a particular ship. Even if it makes sense that it probably was. She, herself, didn’t know for sure. So many, including myself sometimes, let others sway them into saying something because they feel pressured to. good for her for sticking to it and not being bullied into answering something she couldn't feel she knew the answer to.
This was an incredible interview. She was so sharp and well spoken, she remembers the day so clearly but keeps strong. Rest in peace, what a life she lived!
I dont know why, and I’m not saying it as a bad thing, but I have a soft spot in my heart for elderly, I find a need to stop dead in my tracks, to hear what they have to say, a few of my family members wrote off my grandmother, and made weird faces when she would talk, but I always paid attention to her, and loved when she spoke, this woman reminds me of my grandmother, (without the English accent of course). What a sweet lady, must of been very hard for her to say goodbye to her father while boarding the life boat knowing full well she would never see him again.
I've always had a heart for the elderly as well.....so much knowledge and wisdom stored in those feeble bodies. God bless you for caring about your grandma and always paying attention to her! This woman reminds me of my grandma too.....I was thinking about the resemblance as I watched. RIP to them all. 💜🕊
I love listening to survivors telling their stories. They're so much different than anything portrayed in media, because of small details they remember...
love how she remembers the little dog. we dont even think about the animal lives lost. as she said and ive heard there were actually many pets that were also travelling aboard Titanic whos lives were likely ALL lost as well :(
Madeline Astor’s dog died on the Titanic as well. I read somewhere she sat in the lifeboat watching the poor doggy pacing back and forth. She would never speak of the ordeal for the rest of her life. How sad for her. 😢
I visit a relative at a care home twice a week, I wish schools would tap into the wealth of knowledge that these elderly people have, they sit wasting away, just longing for people to listen to them. They have so much to give, yet they sit forgotten.
Her and her mother both are strong women. She said before all this her mother had lost nine children and then she went through this with her only child!!! Can you imagine omg that woman could probably scare me if she wanted. That’s a brave and strong woman to go through so much and still sleep. I can’t even sleep now. People just aren’t cut from that type of fabric anymore, now they cry over spilt milk. Jesus this was horrifying for everyone on that ship!!! So horrible!! I couldn’t imagine what all she heard and what they saw 😭
@@beyondparanormalaustralia2425 that’s so true. Some people do slide through, but most people do have many struggles they fight and overcome that don’t show on the outside! That’s why I always try to be nice to everyone.
My uncle meet a danish survivor, that every year on that specific date and night, would sit in her nightdress the whole night through to remember all the family she lost onboard the Titanic. When she died she was buried in that very dress she wore on Titanic.
I had family on the Titanic. I never knew them but my relatives got on lifeboat #7 and survived the disaster. Even before i was aware that i had relatives on the ship, I always found the disaster fascinating. Loved the 1997 movie as well.
Imagine sitting in a lifeboat, watching Titanic break in half and sink...with your beloved Daddy on board. I bawl just thinking of what people endured.
It is so sickening. I am scared of life because of the gamble of experiences that one could experience. I don't ever want to experience anything like this.
Hat's off to this lady. She called herself a coward for not being able to look at pictures etc. You're not a coward love, to think of the ptsd these people suffered and their loss. And they had to just deal with it. Everything she's lived through and her spirit, i commemd her. If i had half the stomach, integrity and spirit this lady has. May the lord bless you and keep you. R.I.P Eva Heart ❤
Many are so fascinated with the story of Titanic but hearing Eva Hart talk about that incredible sad night really touches the human heart, these people went through hell that night, RIP Eva Hart, your legend will leave on.
*If you Google “Eva Hart Titanic survivor” you’ll read more about her & in Wikipedia there’s pics of her as young girl with her parents. There was so much more to this amazing woman.
There is a strange infatuation with the titanic but she's absolutely right, it's because so much life was preventably lost. The whole handling of the situation from the ignorance of the captain and passengers to another boat passing after seeing the flare and then the insufficient lifeboat situation.. so sad but a lesson i hope to not just captains of cruises and vessels but to people as a whole.
Eva's story is always engrained in my memory. Her recollection of what happened, her analysis of it, the lessons she teaches from it, and just her overall wisdom in general is fascinating and admirable. In spite of her traumatic experience, she has a very joyful, yet to the point energy about her that gives so much rationale about why we should cherish our elders and the experiences they have to share and teach us about.
I admire the stoicism and self composure of people from Eva's generation. So glad her memories were recorded. It gave me chills when she talked about the silence after Titanic sunk...
The fact that a ship saw the titanic and passengers sink and did not help is heartbreaking. The communication between all "nearby" ships and the Titanic was also dreadful. the only good thing that came out of this tragic experience is that ships and boats improved communication drastically.
They did a lot of research on why that ship didn't respond. There is a form of mirage that makes it look like things are floating in the air. There is another form that makes the bottom part of objects disappear. The Titanic probably saw a much shorter version of the iceberg until they were right on it. What that other ship saw didn't match the size of what they knew of the Titanic either. They saw a much smaller ship. The flairs they saw they thought was some sort of firework display. Because the size didn't match up, they didn't respond.
@@triciac1019 A Fata Morgana is a complex form of superior mirage visible in a narrow band right above the horizon. However, I've never heard of one being seen at night.
Just finished reading her book .. what a wonderful and remarkable lady, she had such a great and loving personality! She remembers things so well despite the fact she was so young when it all happened. I can’t even imagine to live with this kind of trauma, it’s sad knowing and seeing these events haunted them for the rest of their lives .. what an absolute nightmare. 💔
I could spend hours listening her. I remember my wife's grandmother, we used to go to eat with her and her grandfather. I could spend hours listening to her talk about her memories of the Spanish civil war, she was an inexhaustible source of stories. Her way of talking about, expressing, of transmitting to you... I loved that woman. Something similar happens to me with Eva Hart, I could spend hours listening to her and asking her questions, listening carefully to every last detail. God bless her.
This is amazing. She’s so eloquent when she speaks. It’s crazy to think that one day someone might talk like this about other terrible events, such as 9/11 etc