Eva M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1918, one of three sisters. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending private school; teaching in a Jewish kindergarten; one sister's emigration to South Africa in 1933; her other sister remaining in Berlin (she was protected as the wife of a non-Jewish judge); participation in Maccabi; her father and future husband's arrests on Kristallnacht; marriage after their release; her husband's emigration to Bolivia; traveling via Genoa to join him in December; her parents not emigrating because they liked and trusted Germans; being treated well in Bolivia; and tension between the pro-Nazi German community and Jewish immigrants. Ms. M. discusses corresponding with her parents until their deportation in January 1943; and learning after the war that they and many relatives were killed in Auschwitz. She shows photographs and documents.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (hi8)
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
- M., Eva, -- 1918-
Corporate Bodies
- Maccabi World Union.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Jewish refugees.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Genoa (Italy)
- Breslau (Germany)
- WrocĹaw (Poland)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat