Eva M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1932. She tells of her mother's marriage, against her parents' wishes, to a non-Jew who converted to Judaism; her mother's father living with them after her grandmother's death; a close relationship with her grandfather; her mother and grandfather having to wear the yellow star after German invasion; continuing to attend school as a non-Jew; her grandfather being taken in a round-up (she never saw him again); her mother going into hiding; her mother's deportation in 1943; hiding her cousin in her house; her father threatening to denounce them; visiting an aunt in Będzin; her father's drunkenness enabling her to continue hiding her cousin and later her aunt; moving to Katowice with her aunt after the war; living in an orphanage in Pocking displaced persons camp; meeting her future husband; and marriage. Mrs. M. discusses learning her mother had died in Auschwitz; continuing hostility toward her father; never answering his letters, which he sent until his recent death; continuing friendship with a woman from the orphanage; and her daughter's interest in her experiences. She shows photographs.

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