Eva K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Eva K., who was born in Graz, Austria in 1917. She recalls her family's return to Prague due to antisemitism in Graz; an idyllic childhood; becoming a nurse; a Czech physician's warning to leave before March 15, 1938; her sister's departure for England; her mother's refusal to leave for Yugoslavia; German invasion on March 15; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to the Jewish section; terror and reprisals following Heydrich's assassination; and transport in July 1942, with her mother, to Terezi?n. Mrs. K. relates constant hunger; frequent illnesses; work in the hospital; cultural events; transport in October 1944, with her mother, to Auschwitz; selection and separation from her mother; learning the fate of those who went "to the right"; appells; beating from kapos; the constant smell and clouds of smoke from burning flesh; transport to Oederan; work in a munitions factory; kindnesses shown by German foremen; transfer to Terezi?n; liberation by Soviets; returning to Prague upon learning her sister had returned; emigration in 1949 to Shanghai to join her future husband; the birth of her son; emigration to the United States in 1951; and adjustment difficulties. Mrs. K. discusses recurrent nightmares of the transports and her belief that no lessons have been learned from the Holocaust - that people have not changed.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)