Eva Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva, who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes feeling both Hungarian and Jewish before the outbreak of war; imposition of anti-Jewish measures; living in a house designated for Jews; hiding under false papers in Budapest during a round-up; working at a munitions factory; arrest during a round-up in November 1944; deportation to Ravensbru?ck; working at the factory; witnessing a childbirth and the Germans killing the mother and her baby; liberation by United States troops; her emotional reunion with her parents in Budapest (they did not know she had survived); marriage in 1948; and emigration with her husband to Austria, then to Argentina. Eva discusses her regret that she could not have children; her perception of her parents' inability to save her; and her personal meaning of survival.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- Eva.
Corporate Bodies
- RavensbruĚck (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Hungary.
- Budapest (Hungary)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat