Eva P. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1677
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Eva P., who was born in Danzig in 1929. She remembers an affluent childhood prior to 1938; anti-Jewish regulations forcing her father to cease practicing medicine; Hitler's visit to Danzig; having to attend Jewish school; her father's brief arrest in winter 1939; leaving for Marseille on July 27 with her parents; embarking by ship for Shanghai; during a stop in Hong Kong, her father's brief internment as a "German enemy" by the British; his release due to intervention by the local Jewish community; continuing to Shanghai; attending a British school; replacement of the British staff by Japanese in 1942; ghettoization; overcrowding, hunger, and epidemics; working at a child care center; isolation from any outsiders or news; Allied bombings in the summer of 1945; liberation by United States troops; learning her father's family had all been killed; her parents' return to Germany; her emigration to the United States in 1947; and marriage to a man she had met in Shanghai. Mrs. P. discusses her children's incredulity at what she has lived through.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

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

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