Oral history interview with Edith Eva Eger
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Marci Jenkins
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Edith Eva Eger on August 14, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2000.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Marci Jenkins
- Eger, Edith Eva.
- Edith E. Eger
- Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Hungary.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Typhoid fever.
- Jewish families--Hungary.
- Refugee camps.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jewish cooking.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jews--Slovakia--Kosice.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Americanization.
- Pneumonia.
- Jewish athletes.
- Family therapists.
- Baltimore (Md.)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Hungary.
- Sisters.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish women--Hungary.
- Gunskirchen (Austria)
- Kosice (Slovakia)
- Texas.
- Upper Austria (Austria)
- Holocaust survivors--Marriage.
- Psychologists.
- San Diego (Calif.)
- Ballet dancers.
- Women gymnasts.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
Genre
- Oral History
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