Eva T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva T., who was born in 1925 in Zgierz, Poland. She recalls German invasion in 1939; her father's arrest and release after a severe beating; expulsion from their home; living with her paternal grandfather in ?o?dz?; moving to Warsaw after being warned by her father's German friend; her father's return to Zgierz with Mrs. T's brother and sister; working in a brush factory to earn food for her family; her mother's death from starvation; her siblings' disappearance (she never saw any of them again); attempts to avoid deportation; and transport to Majdanek. Mrs. T. describes hangings and shootings; cruelty inflicted by a kapo; transfer to a marmalade factory; burning bodies at a nearby site; efforts to save a baby; transfer to Auschwitz; a prisoner helping her escape selection; exchanging names with her best friend to avoid separation; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben and Terezi?n; and liberation by Soviet troops in May. She details traveling to ?o?dz? with her friend; living with relatives; attending Zionist meetings; traveling to Munich; marriage to another survivor; and her son's birth. She discusses her recent visit to Zgierz and testifying at war crimes trials in Germany.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- T., Eva, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Mothers and daughters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
- Child survivors.
- Forced labor.
- Friendship.
- War crime trials -- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Łódź (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Aschersleben (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Poland.
- Zgierz (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat