As her father was Jewish, she moved to Vienna to escape the anti-Semitic laws of the Nazis.There, she met an English soldier, Francis Burns (from Liverpool), at a tea dance. Evelina Burns was 46 years old when she gave birth to Pete. Burns wrote of his childhood in his autobiography Freak Unique.

Peter Jozzeppi "Pete" Burns (5 August 1959 – 23 October 2016) was an English singer-songwriter and television personality. He founded the pop band Dead or Alive in 1980, in which he was vocalist and songwriter, and who rose to mainstream success with their 1985 single "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)".

Pete Burns wsa born in in Port Sunlight, Cheshire on 5 August 1959.His mother, Evelina Maria Bettina Quittner von Hudec (1913–1987), was born in Heidelberg.